LEADER 03029nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910964305203321 005 20240513052253.0 010 $a979-82-16-32083-8 010 $a1-282-60758-8 010 $a9786612607585 010 $a0-7391-4841-9 035 $a(CKB)2560000000016420 035 $a(EBL)616238 035 $a(OCoLC)700699436 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000777037 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12324079 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777037 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10746716 035 $a(PQKB)10109641 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL616238 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10391915 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL260758 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC616238 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000016420 100 $a20100405d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCharles Dickens's American audience /$fRobert McParland 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLanham, Md. $cLexington Books$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-7391-1858-7 311 08$a0-7391-1857-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Bibliography 327 $aIndex 330 $aFrom 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 contemporar 606 $aBooks and reading$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y19th century 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory 676 $a823/.8 700 $aMcParland$b Robert$01620303 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910964305203321 996 $aCharles Dickens's American audience$94453762 997 $aUNINA