The pleasures of memory [electronic resource] : learning to read with Charles Dickens / Sarah Winter.
Publication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.Description: xiii, 455 p. : illISBN:- 9780823233526 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780823233540 (e-book)
- 823/.8 22
- PR4588 .W56 2011eb
eBooks
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.