The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination by Beryl Gray - 9780367880187

The Dog in the Dickensian ImaginationAuthor(s): Beryl Gray\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367880187, 978-0367880187\nSynopsis\nFascinated by them, unable to ignore them, and imaginatively stimulated by them, Charles Dickens was an acute and unsentimental reporter on the dogs he kept and encountered during a time when they were a burgeoning part of the nineteenth-century urban and domestic scene. As dogs inhabited Dickenss city, so too did they populate his fiction, journalism, and letters. In the first book-length work of criticism on Dickenss relationship to canines, Beryl Gray shows that dogs, real and invented, were intrinsic to Dickenss vision and experience of London and to his representations of its life. Gray draws on an array of reminiscences by Dickenss friends, family, and fellow writers, and also situates her book within the context of nineteenth-century attitudes towards dogs as revealed in the per.