19th Century
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Alfred Jingle
Alta California
American Literature
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British Literature
Captain Cuttle
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Circumlocution Office
comparative literary analysis
Cribbage Board
David's Fancy
Dead Man
Dickens
Dickens's Social Criticism
Dickens's Works
Dickensian influence on US fiction
Dickensian Melodrama
Editor's Easy Chair
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Essex Institute Historical Collections
Extensive Practical Knowledge
Fine Art
Great
Great Actuality
Howe Lls
literary influence studies
Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Work
Mining Offices
narrative technique evolution
nineteenth-century American literature
Pickwick Abroad
Popular culture
Rousing Endings
transatlantic literary relations
Victorian novel impact
Wedding Journey
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138670990
- Weight: 1000g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jul 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1988, this book looks at the enormous impact Dickens’ writings had on American novelists in the second half of the nineteenth century. Dickens dominated not only popular taste but the American novel for sixty years and the author argues that even the most original writers showed themselves again and again to be in ‘conscious sympathy’ with Dickens. Along with Dickens, this book examines four radically different American writers — Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Henry James and Frank Norris — whose debt to Dickens, the author asserts, is nevertheless clearly evident in their work. This book will be of interest to students of literature.
