Charles Dickens's Networks

• An innovative analysis of Dickens's novels and their famed crisscrossing plots
• A new chapter in the history of travel literature
• An original approach to literary history combining formal and historical analysis to read nineteenth-century literature from the perspective of mobility networks
• Theorizes how passenger networks work and how narrative forms a part of imagining public networks
• Enters into the discussion of transnationalism and globalism to make a case for attending to passenger networks in shaping imagined communities

Readership: Students and scholars of Victorian literature; readers of Dickens; scholars of transport history and the history of time

Jonathan H. Grossman, Associate Professor, UCLA

Jonathan H. Grossman is Associate Professor of English at UCLA. He is also the author of The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel (2002).

"Grossman gathers his material convincingly. At every stop along the line we're offered something both fresh and useful for the journey ... In the 200th anniversary year of his birth, Grossman's book is a stimulating contribution to the Dickens Roadshow." - Gee Williams, Review 31

Introduction
One: The Speeding of the Pickwick Coach
I: Time
II: Space
III: Serialization
IV: Systems
Two: On Tragedy's Tracks
I: In Clock
II: A Tale That Is Tolled
III: Clock Strikes
Three: International Connections
Perspective
Simultaneity
Plottability
Afterword
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