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Innocent Abroad : Charles Dickens's American Engagements /
In 1842, Victorian England's foremost novelist visited America, naively expecting both a return to Eden and an ideal republic that would demonstrate progress as a natural law. Instead, Charles Dickens suffered a traumatic disappointment that darkened his vision of society and human nature for t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
1990.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | In 1842, Victorian England's foremost novelist visited America, naively expecting both a return to Eden and an ideal republic that would demonstrate progress as a natural law. Instead, Charles Dickens suffered a traumatic disappointment that darkened his vision of society and human nature for the remainder of his career. His second tour, in 1867-68, ostensibly more successful, proved no antidote for the first.Using new materials -- letters, diaries, and publishers' records -- Jerome Meckier enumerates the reasons for the failure of Dickens's American tours. During the first, an informal conspi. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780813163925 |