02998nam 2200601 a 450 991079148880332120200520144314.01-282-60758-897866126075850-7391-4841-9(CKB)2560000000016420(EBL)616238(OCoLC)700699436(SSID)ssj0000777037(PQKBManifestationID)12324079(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777037(PQKBWorkID)10746716(PQKB)10109641(MiAaPQ)EBC616238(Au-PeEL)EBL616238(CaPaEBR)ebr10391915(CaONFJC)MIL260758(EXLCZ)99256000000001642020100405d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCharles Dickens's American audience[electronic resource] /Robert McParlandLanham, Md. Lexington Books20101 online resource (253 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-1858-7 0-7391-1857-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Seeking Charles Dickens's American Audience; Chapter 2. Charles Dickens and the American Community; Chapter 3. Dickens and American Publishers; Chapter 4. Charles Dickens's First Visit to America, American Notes, and Martin Chuzzlewit; Chapter 5. Dickens and Library Reading; Chapter 6. Learning from Fiction and Reality; Chapter 7. Dickens in a House Divided; Chapter 8. Civil War Reading; Chapter 9. Theatricality; Chapter 10. The Public Readings and the American Reconstruction of Charles Dickens; Chapter 11. The Afterlife of Charles Dickens; BibliographyIndexFrom 1837 to 1912, Charles Dickens was by far the most popular writer for American readers. Through several sources including statistics, literary biography, newspapers, memoirs, diaries, letters, and interviews, Robert McParland examines a historical time and an emerging national consciousness that defined the American identity before and after the Civil War. American voices present their views, tastes, emotional reactions and identifications, and deep attachment and love for Dickens's characters, stories, themes, and sensibilities as well as for the man himself. Bringing together contemporarBooks and readingUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPopular cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesCivilization19th centuryBooks and readingHistoryPopular cultureHistory823/.8McParland Robert1479795MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791488803321Charles Dickens's American audience3838940UNINA