Charles Dickens's American Audience

Informationen zum Autor By Robert McParland Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 - Introduction: Seeking Charles Dickens's American Audience Chapter 2 - Charles Dickens and the American Community Chapter 3 - Dickens and American Publishers Chapter 4 - Charles Dickens's First Visit to America, American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit Chapter 5 - Dickens and Library Reading Chapter 6 - Learning from Fiction and Reality Chapter 7 - Dickens in a House Divided Chapter 8 - Civil War Reading Chapter 9 - Theatricality Chapter 10 - The Public Readings and the American Reconstruction of Charles Dickens Chapter 11 - The Afterlife of Charles Dickens

Product details

• Authors: Robert Mcparland, Robert P. McParland, McParland Robert
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.12.2011
• EAN: 9780739118580
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1858-0
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, British Literature;Literary Studies