Nicholas Nickleby (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Dickens
- First Published: 1838
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Sensation novel
- Subjects: Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Social issues, Brothers and sisters, England or English people, Wills, Greed, Money, Private schools, Philanthropy or philanthropists
- Locales: London, England, Portsmouth, England
Places Discussed
*London. Capital and leading city of Great Britain. After his father dies, Nicholas takes his mother and sister to London to seek assistance from his uncle Ralph. A misanthropic miser, Ralph arranges for the Nicklebys to leave their pleasant lodgings and take up squalid ones, while Nicholas goes to Yorkshire to teach at Dotheboys Hall. The novel presents London initially as a heartless place of illusion and deprivation, which underscores Ralph’s deceptions and machinations.
Dickens’s gloomy depictions of such London locations as Snow Hill and the...
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