The chapter surveys Charles Dickens's imaginative engagement with continental Europe, from Pictures from Italy to Tale of Two Cities. It does so by focusing on Europe as a progressive "ideal" ("the Europe of the peoples"), and highlighting the peaking of Dickens's interest in continental politics around 1848, the year of revolution. It then shows its gradual decline in the course of 1850s, as evidenced in Little Dorrit, and Tale of two Cities, the very novels that most emphatically bestride the Channel.
Dickens and Europe
Luisa Villa
2025-01-01
Abstract
The chapter surveys Charles Dickens's imaginative engagement with continental Europe, from Pictures from Italy to Tale of Two Cities. It does so by focusing on Europe as a progressive "ideal" ("the Europe of the peoples"), and highlighting the peaking of Dickens's interest in continental politics around 1848, the year of revolution. It then shows its gradual decline in the course of 1850s, as evidenced in Little Dorrit, and Tale of two Cities, the very novels that most emphatically bestride the Channel.
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