Sorry, but we will be reading Dickins long after the academic weak-d*cks at the MLA assume room temp and their septic remains pollute the land.
They should keep to literature they know...like “My t*rd has two daddies.”
The predictions made during the first earth day conclave are hilarious.
One word:
Penicillin................
The cities WERE ugly, dangerous, and full of corruption when he was writing. Unfortunately, the cities are still dangerous, full of corruption, and largely ugly, especially in the US. The founding fathers wanted the US to avoid developing big cities of that ilk, but......
What people who read Dickens’ descriptions of early Victorian city life should consider is that as terrible as those conditions were, people still chose to move to those cities. What does that say about the conditions of rural poverty they were moving away from?