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American episodes involving Charles Dickens
Sidney P. Moss & Carolyn J. Moss
Publisher: Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Pub. Co., 1999.
ISBN: 0878755047   LCC: PR4592  

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of illustrations -- Preface -- Dickens's first visit to America
and its fallout. American notes: the book that inflamed two nations.
South Carolina contemplates banning American notes; The American
chapters of Martin Chuzzlewit: the culmination of Dickens's quarrel
with the American press; The American press assigns Dickens to
Queen's Bench Prison; Did John Forster write the notorious Foreign
quarterly article on "American poetry"?; The authorship of the
Foreign quarterly article on "American poetry" and Poe's "Two long
interviews" with Dickens; Charles Dickens makes Ticknor & Fields his
authorized American publisher -- Dickens's second visit to America
and its fallout. Kate Field reports on Dickens's performances in
America; Dickens and his Chicago relatives; Frederick Dickens: from
courtship to courtroom; Dickens on America: a twenty-five year record
-- After Dickens's death. Gail Hamilton on Dickens's alleged ménage à
trois; Laurence Hutton's edition of Letters of Charles Dickens to
Wilkie Collins -- Index.

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LCC Number: PR4592

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: x, 174 p. : ill., ports ; 24 cm.

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