Description of place: sensational horror
Abstract
Dickens was slow in developing an art of restraint; from the popular theatre and his own natural vigour he derived the tendency towards an art of strong assertion, risking over-assertion, which he never entirely lost. Thus places in Dickens are likely to be described as extremes; idyllic rural scenes are exaggeratedly, and often unrealistically, perfect; town scenes have a greater life, of animation or corruption, than one supposes any real urban setting can ever have had.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Spatial and Cultural Studies
Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
Cinema and Media Studies
Publication details
- Pages
- 48–51
- Publication date
- 9 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter