The pleasures of memory
Subtitle: learning to read with Charles Dickens
By: Sarah Winter
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9780823233526; 9780823233540
Subjects: Books and reading; Collective memory and literature; Influence; Psychological aspects; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-436) and index.
Table of contents: title: Dickens and the pleasures of memory; title: Memory's bonds: associationism and the freedom of thought; title: Dickens's originality: serial fiction, celebrity, and The Pickwick Papers; title: The pleasures of memory, part I: curiosity as didacticism in The Old Curiosity Shop; title: The pleasures of memory, part II: epitaphic reading and cultural memory; title: Learning by heart in Our Mutual Friend; title: Dickens's laughter: school reading and democratic literature, 1870-1940.