Selected Letters
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 1985-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780333363782
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 1985-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780333363782
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198126171
This volume presents 1,592 letters, 668 of them previously unpublished, for the years 1850 to 1852. This was a time of great activity for Dickens, who completed the serial publication of David Copperfield, began work on Bleak House, successfully established the weekly Household Words (in which his own serial A Child's History of England appeared), and wrote about 100 articles and stories for the journal, including many uncollected pieces. In April 1851 he and Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton founded the Guild of Literature and Art, a scheme to help writers and artists. He also suffered a number of personal blows: the deaths of his father, his baby daughter Dora, and two of his close friends, Richard Watson and Alfred D'Orsay; there was also anxiety over the illness of his wife Catherine.
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Page : 2432 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 1991
Category : American literature
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Author : Rose Arny
Publisher :
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 1999
Category : American literature
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Author : John Robert Reed
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Didactic fiction, English
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Author : Jessica DeSpain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317087259
Until the Chace Act in 1891, no international copyright law existed between Britain and the United States, which meant publishers were free to edit text, excerpt whole passages, add new illustrations, and substantially redesign a book's appearance. In spite of this ongoing process of transatlantic transformation of texts, the metaphor of the book as a physical embodiment of its author persisted. Jessica DeSpain's study of this period of textual instability examines how the physical book acted as a major form of cultural exchange between Britain and the United States that called attention to volatile texts and the identities they manifested. Focusing on four influential works”Charles Dickens's American Notes for General Circulation, Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World, Fanny Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, and Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas”DeSpain shows that for authors, readers, and publishers struggling with the unpredictability of the textual body, the physical book and the physical body became interchangeable metaphors of flux. At the same time, discourses of destabilized bodies inflected issues essential to transatlantic culture, including class, gender, religion, and slavery, while the practice of reprinting challenged the concepts of individual identity, personal property, and national identity.
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Page : 2576 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 2002
Category : American literature
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Author : Francis Fisher Browne
Publisher :
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 1897
Category : American literature
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Page : 514 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 20122 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2023-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
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