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. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 --Influence.
Collective memory and literature. Books and reading--Psychological aspects. Books and reading--History--19th century.