Dickens and Landscape Discourse is a contextual study offering valuable insights into the
significance of geographical and social placement in nineteenth-century literature. Jane H.
Berard considers landscape contexts available to Dickens such as topographical poetry
antiquarianism tourism John Britton's Beauties of Wiltshire and the landscape discourse in
Dickens' other works to open up a reading of Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44) set in Wiltshire.
Though Dickens can be seen reflecting or resisting the value-laden discourses embedded in his
landscapes he communicates to his readers of Martin Chuzzlewit through an interactive
oppositional and subversive social discourse to expose a landscape of death and the
Victorians' struggle for control over their situation.
