Jerome Meckier

Broschiertes Buch

Innocent Abroad

Charles Dickens's American Engagements

Beschreibung

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

Autor

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kentucky
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780813153780
• ISBN-10: 0813153786
• Artikelnr.: 40921304