Winter, Sarah.

The pleasures of memory learning to read with Charles Dickens / [electronic resource] : Sarah Winter. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2011. - xiii, 455 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 --Influence.


Collective memory and literature.
Books and reading--Psychological aspects.
Books and reading--History--19th century.


Electronic books.

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