| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 244 pages) |
| Contents |
Seeking Charles Dickens's American audience -- Charles Dickens and the American community -- Dickens and American publishers -- Charles Dickens's first visit to America, American notes, and Martin Chuzzlewit -- Dickens and library reading -- Learning from fiction and reality -- Dickens in a house divided -- Civil War reading -- Theatricality -- The public readings and the American reconstruction of Charles Dickens -- The afterlife of Charles Dickens |
| Summary |
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 contemporary reactions to Dickens and his works, this book paints a portrait of the American people and of American society and culture from 1837 to the turn of the twentieth century. It is in this view of nineteenth-century America_its people and their values, their reading habits and cultural views, the scenarios of their everyday lives even in the face of the drastic changes of the emerging nation_that Charles Dickens's American Audience makes its greatest impact |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-234) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Appreciation -- United States
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 fast |
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Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Art appreciation
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Books and reading
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Civilization
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Popular culture
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Civilization -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139939
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021678600 |
| ISBN |
9780739148419 |
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0739148419 |
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1282607588 |
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9781282607583 |
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9786612607585 |
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6612607580 |
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