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1 Similarities and Differences: C. Dickens' fiction and contemporary reality

2  The purposes of the work are: To actualize themes and problems surfaced by Dickens’ analysis To make a comparison between the past and the contemporary societies To find out what of the past is remained and what has changed

3  Dickens’ London  Henry Mayhew  Modern Megalopolis  Dickens’ London: a Megalopolis  Law of averages  Conclusions

4 A great difference between upper and middle class and working class and paupers Largely diffused poverty Crowed places Mud and dirt Hawkers, thieves and vagabonds Child labour and more generally terrible conditions for childood, as no education and starvation  The London described by is charaterized by:

5  Mayhew’s studies confirm that London was: Characterizeb by squalor and filth Lack of sanitation and hotbed of numerous diseases Overpopulated, full of poors thath lived in awful conditions Divided into two big side: the one of the rich classes and the one of the working calss, need and criminality  H. Mayhew (1812-1887) was an english journalist and social researcher  He published the book series London Labour and the London Poor (1851), a groundbreaking and influential survey of the city's poor  Dickens gained at Mayhew’s research to recreate London as the setting of his novels

6  Dickens’ London seems to have some in common with the modern megalopolis. Indeed, also the problems of mega-cities nowadays are: Overpopulation An huge gap between the riches and the poors Ambiental sustainability and pollution Criminality and noneffective laws Extended destitute and not-healty areas lacking of services and of food and water provisions, wracked by criminality

7  Both London in the IX century and modern megalopolis have in common the process of urbanization, made up by three phases: the migration, the economic development and the evolution of transport.  The migration: the move of many people to the cities is the first cause of the city development. The migration to Dickens’ London was generated by the Agricultural revolution that caused many unemployed who moved to the city Here and now it is a natural consequence of the baby boom

8  The economic development: it is both a consequence of the new manpower and a cause that boosts the development of the city. The Industrial Revolution was fundamental in London’s advancement Nowadays growths in industrial productivity and in financy increase the urbanization

9  The evolution of transport: cities are historically extended in relation to the predominant means of transport. In the XIX century, the development of cars and railways allowed faster transfers and, as a consequence, the growth of the size of London. Tram, trains and underground also contribute to the extension of modern megalopolis

10 GROWTH OF POPULATION 18001900 London900.0006.000.000 19702000 Bombay6.000.00016.000.000 San Paolo7.000.00018.000.000 Shanghai5.000.00013.000.000 CHILD LABOUR London (1850)120.000 Bombay (2008)68.000 URBAN POPULATION1900Nowadays 3%50%

11  It’s possible to say that London was the first “megalopolis”, thanks to the Agricultural and the Industrial revolutions that developed London urbanization  What happened to London continues to happen even more faster to several cities nowadays  Dickens seems to have understood the problems of such a process and to have tried to report it “…but Dickens has done more: he has remained modern” - G. K. Chesterton

12  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/charles- dickens/9018185/Dickenss-London-in- pictures.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/charles- dickens/9018185/Dickenss-London-in- pictures.html  http://charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_london. html http://charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_london. html  https://emiliashop.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/ charles-dickens-e-henry-mayhew-un-doppio- bicentenario-ignorato/ https://emiliashop.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/ charles-dickens-e-henry-mayhew-un-doppio- bicentenario-ignorato/  http://data.un.org/Default.aspx http://data.un.org/Default.aspx  http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and- victorians/articles/henry-mayhews-london- labour-and-the-london-poor http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and- victorians/articles/henry-mayhews-london- labour-and-the-london-poor  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization

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