American episodes involving Charles Dickens
By: Sidney P. Moss & Carolyn J. Moss.
Contributors: Moss, Carolyn.
Publisher: Whitston Pub. Co.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Troy, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- America.; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Travel -- United States.; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Appreciation -- United States.; Oral interpretation of fiction -- History -- 19th century.; British -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Preface; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Index.