Robert Mcparland

Charles Dickens's American Audience (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From 1837 to 1912, Charles Dickens was by far the most popular writer for American readers. Through several sources including statistics, literary biography, newspapers, memoirs, diaries, letters, and interviews, Robert McParland examines a historical time and an emerging national consciousness that defined the American identity before and after the Civil War. American voices present their views, tastes, emotional reactions and identifications, and deep attachment and love for Dickens's characters, stories, themes, and sensibilities as well as for the man himself. Bringing together contemporary reactions to Dickens and his works, this book paints a portrait of the American people and of American society and culture from 1837 to the turn of the twentieth century. It is in this view of nineteenth-century America-its people and their values, their reading habits and cultural views, the scenarios of their everyday lives even in the face of the drastic changes of the emerging nation-that Charles Dickens's American Audience makes its greatest impact.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739148419
• Artikelnr.: 38218686

Autorenporträt

Robert McParland is Professor of English and the Humanities at Felician University, USA. He is a singer-songwriter who holds degrees in arts administration, literary studies, and cultural history. His books include Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Other Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Literature (2015), Citizen Steinbeck (2016), and Rock Music Imagination (2019), all published by Bloomsbury.

Inhaltsangabe

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