The setting of Oliver Twist, or, The Parish Boy’s Progress (1838) corresponds to actual, historically-existing geographical places that can be identified through realistic details such as street names, landmarks, towns and regions. But, just because the text’s space is ‘correspondent’ to the real world doesn’t stop it being metaphorical. Real places, with real place names, are loaded with potential figurative value, for their allegory, for their reputation. Newgate, for instance, summons not just the prison itself, but the popular ‘Newgate Novel’ and its sites of criminal activity. And nested in the ‘real’, as the ‘topoi’ map demonstrates, sit invented or imagined places. The ‘Progress’ of the novel’s title, recalling Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and Hogarth’s Harlot’s Progress, plays on the picaresque novel with characters moving from place to place, between city and country.