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Short Desciption: section devoted to Pictures from Italy, James Davies argues that. Dickens's
travelogue ?has to be read as travel fiction in which the ...
Content Inside: The Traveller as Liar: Dickens and the `Invisible Towns in Northern Italy CLOTILDE DE STASIO I n a fairly recent book on Dickenss characters, at the end of a section devoted to Pictures from Italy, James Davies argues that Dickenss travelogue `has to be read as travel fiction in which the Narrator-character is the main source of interest and that `the narrator emerges as a complex, unhappy and confused figure largely responsible for a narrative effect which this critic calls `latent negativity. Far from being solely Dickensian, this dark view of the Italian experience was common to many British travellers at a time when the traditional interest in the Italy of the past was giving way to an interest in present-day Italy. According to C.P. Brand, `the idealistic halo with which the Romantics had surrounded Italy was being superseded by a more realistic outlook: `Dickens and his contemporaries mockingly substitute dirt and mosquitoes for




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