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The pleasures of memory : learning to read with Charles Dickens / Sarah Winter.
LIBRA PR4588 .W56 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winter, Sarah.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Influence.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
- Collective memory and literature.
- Books and reading--Psychological aspects.
- Books and reading.
- Books and reading--History--19th century.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 455 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Dickens and the pleasures of memory
- Memory's bonds: associationism and the freedom of thought
- Dickens's originality: serial fiction, celebrity, and The Pickwick Papers
- The pleasures of memory, part I: curiosity as didacticism in The Old Curiosity Shop
- The pleasures of memory, part II: epitaphic reading and cultural memory
- Learning by heart in Our Mutual Friend
- Dickens's laughter: school reading and democratic literature, 1870-1940.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-436) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780823233526
- 0823233529
- 9780823233540
- 0823233545
- OCLC:
- 630468078
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