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Charles Dickens's American audience / / Robert McParland



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Autore: McParland Robert Visualizza persona
Titolo: Charles Dickens's American audience / / Robert McParland Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
Disciplina: 823/.8
Soggetto topico: Books and reading - United States - History - 19th century
Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: United States Civilization 19th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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; Bibliography
Index
Sommario/riassunto: From 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
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ISBN: 1-282-60758-8
9786612607585
0-7391-4841-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807801903321
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