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Charles Dickens's American audience /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McParland, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.