How Long to Read Charles Dickens's Networks

How Long Does it Take to Read Charles Dickens's Networks?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Charles Dickens's Networks by Jonathan H. Grossman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The same week in February 1836 that Charles Dickens was hired to write his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, the first railway line in London opened. Charles Dickens's Networks explores the rise of the global, high-speed passenger transport network in the nineteenth century and the indelible impact it made on Dickens's work. The advent first of stage coaches, then of railways and transoceanic steam ships made unprecedented round-trip journeys across once seemingly far distances seem ordinary and systematic. Time itself was changed. The Victorians overran the separate, local times kept in each town, establishing instead the synchronized, 'standard' time, which now ticks on our clocks. Jonathan Grossman examines the history of public transport's systematic networking of people and how this revolutionized perceptions of time, space, and community, and how the art form of the novel played a special role in synthesizing and understanding it all. Focusing on a trio of road novels by Charles Dickens, he looks first at a key historical moment in the networked community's coming together, then at a subsequent recognition of its tragic limits, and, finally, at the construction of a revised view that expressed the precarious, limited omniscient perspective by which passengers came to imagine their journeying in the network.

How long is Charles Dickens's Networks?

Charles Dickens's Networks by Jonathan H. Grossman is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Charles Dickens's Networks Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Charles Dickens's Networks aloud.

What Reading Level is Charles Dickens's Networks?

Charles Dickens's Networks is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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