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Charles Dickens's American Audience

By Robert McParland

Book information

Year
2010
ISBN
0739118579, 9780739118573, 9780739148419
LCC
PR4592.A54 M37 2010
Open Library ID
OL24468212M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
785 kB (804275 bytes)
Pages
272\253
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

During the time when the American nation was emerging, the novels of a British author Charles Dickens contributed significantly to the making of American culture. The unique contribution of Charles Dickens's American Audience is the focus upon the testimony of Dickens's American readers as a unique reading community how his fiction intersected with their real lives, how he impacted American publishing, literacy, and educational reform, and how Americans loved the theatricality that Dickens brought to their lives.

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