Virginia Zimmerman is Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University.

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Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: "All Relics Here Together"

2. The Victorian Geologist: Reading Remains and Writing Time

3. Tennyson's Fairy Tale of Science

4. Accidental Archaeology in London and Pompeii

5. Dickens among the Ruins

6. Final Fragments

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