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Charles Dickens's American Audience
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2010
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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.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1857-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4841-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
244
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 1. Seeking Charles Dickens’s American Audience No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter 2. Charles Dickens and the American Community No access Pages 11 - 42
Chapter 3. Dickens and American Publishers No access Pages 43 - 66
Chapter 4. Charles Dickens’s First Visit to America, American Notes, and Martin Chuzzlewit No access Pages 67 - 82
Chapter 5. Dickens and Library Reading No access Pages 83 - 100
Chapter 6. Learning from Fiction and Reality No access Pages 101 - 120
Chapter 7. Dickens in a House Divided No access Pages 121 - 140
Chapter 8. Civil War Reading No access Pages 141 - 158
Chapter 9. Theatricality No access Pages 159 - 172
Chapter 10. The Public Readings and the American Reconstruction of Charles Dickens No access Pages 173 - 192
Chapter 11. The Afterlife of Charles Dickens No access Pages 193 - 214
