What If The Wire Was a Victorian Novel?

by Biblioklept

Do yourself a favor and read Joy Delyria and Sean Michael Robinson’s send up of lit crit “‘When It’s Not Your Turn’: The Quintessentially Victorian Vision of Odgen’s ‘The Wire.’” Their essay is a reappraisal of The Wire that imagines David Simon’s Baltimore saga as a serialized Victorian novel contemporary with Dickens.

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