The essay deals with Charles Dickens's second journey to Italy, which has been seldom investigated. It describes the political context of Italy in 1853 and it makes use of letters which stress the uncanny feelings generated by the author's second visit. His gaps in memory, the shocks of recognition, his feelings of loss and strange threatening impressions of déja-vu will resurface in the novel Little Dorrit with its stereoscopic structure in which the 'before' and the 'after' are mutually mirrored and the images of the Italian ancient ruins belong to the perception of modern London.
Back to Italy: Dickens's stereoscopic views / F. Orestano - In: Charles Dickens and Europe / [a cura di] M. Leroy. - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. - ISBN 9781443847933. - pp. 126-140 (( convegno Charles Dickens and Europe tenutosi a Mulhouse nel 2012.
Back to Italy: Dickens's stereoscopic views
F. OrestanoPrimo
2013
Abstract
The essay deals with Charles Dickens's second journey to Italy, which has been seldom investigated. It describes the political context of Italy in 1853 and it makes use of letters which stress the uncanny feelings generated by the author's second visit. His gaps in memory, the shocks of recognition, his feelings of loss and strange threatening impressions of déja-vu will resurface in the novel Little Dorrit with its stereoscopic structure in which the 'before' and the 'after' are mutually mirrored and the images of the Italian ancient ruins belong to the perception of modern London.
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