Innocent Abroad - Meckier, Jerome
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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 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 enumerat

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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 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 enumerat
Autorenporträt
Jerome Meckier, professor of English at the University of Kentucky, is author of Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction: Dickens, Realism, and Revaluation.