Innocent Abroad : Charles Dickens's American Engagements /

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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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Autor principal: Meckier, Jerome
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1990.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Dickens, Charles.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Travel > United States.
Reise
Travel.
Novelists, English.
British.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Novelists, English > 19th century > Biography.
British > United States > History > 19th century.
USA.
United States.
États-Unis > Descriptions et voyages.
United States > Description and travel.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780813163925

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