Innocent abroad : Charles Dickens's American engagements / Jerome Meckier.

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Meckier, Jerome

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0813163927
9780813163925

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Innocent abroad.DDC classification:

823/.8 23

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PR4581 .M48 1990

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Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations ; 1. Dickens Discovers Dickens; 2. The Newspaper Conspiracy of 1842; 3. The Battle of the Travel Books ; 4. An Ironic Second Coming ; 5. Health and Money; 6. Last Words; Notes ; Index ; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

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Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-263) and index.

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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 enumerates the reasons for the failure of Dickens's American tours. During the first, an informal conspi.

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