This essay offers a reading of the tramp as a figure who stepped out of Dickens's 'All Year Round', and whose freedom and restlessness underwent a cultural transformation towards the end of the nineteenth century, from vagrants and gypsies to middle-class tourists rambling through the countryside. The author examines Dickens's own taxonomy of tramps, differentiates the tramp from the flaneur, and then focuses on the evolving images of the tramp, which, the author claims, will culminate in Chaplin's films.
"Tramps": Dickens's Modern Rhapsody / F. Orestano - In: Unsettling Dickens: Process, Progress and Change / [a cura di] C. Huguet, P. Vita. - Paris : Editions du Sagittaire, 2016. - ISBN 9782917202326. - pp. 157-193 (( convegno A Tale of Four Cities: Dickens Bicentenary Travelling Conference tenutosi a Paris nel 2012.
"Tramps": Dickens's Modern Rhapsody
F. Orestano
2016
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This essay offers a reading of the tramp as a figure who stepped out of Dickens's 'All Year Round', and whose freedom and restlessness underwent a cultural transformation towards the end of the nineteenth century, from vagrants and gypsies to middle-class tourists rambling through the countryside. The author examines Dickens's own taxonomy of tramps, differentiates the tramp from the flaneur, and then focuses on the evolving images of the tramp, which, the author claims, will culminate in Chaplin's films.
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