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Urban Settings In Fiction


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Urban Settings In Fiction
Examines the role and significance of settings and the impact on the characters in Dickens' "Hard Times", Doctorow's "Ragtime", Dos Passos' "Manhattan Transfer" and Chester Himes' "If He Hollers Let Him Go".
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) | 5 sources | 1999 United States


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"Characters of different genders in various novels encounter one another in public spaces, and in these interactions, the author evokes certain political, social, and economic aspirations, differences, and conflicts. This can be illustrated by reference to a number of novels in which different urban settings become characters in their own right, characters that shape the attitudes and destinies of the human characters who inhabit these areas.

Dickens in Hard Times offers a social message which he brings to life through character and setting. Coketown in Hard Times is a representation of the sort of world that was being created because the Industrial Revolution centered entirely on promoting the economy through increased profits while ignoring the human element that makes the whole thing operate. Coketown ..."

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