One Hot Summer - Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

Informationen zum Autor Rosemary Ashton is Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature, University College London. She is the author of ten previous books and a fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London. Klappentext The personal and professional lives of Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin and Benjamin Disraeli in the London of 1858 are explored as a way in to the scandals, shifting ideas, and experimentations of a year in which the Thames was particularly sewage-riddled.

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• Authors: Rosemary Ashton, Rosemary (University College Ashton
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780300238662
• ISBN: 978-0-300-23866-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; London, Greater London, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History: specific events & topics, European History, Collected biographies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, History: specific events and topics