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17 de jan. de 2014 · American notes for general circulation by Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Publication date ... Notes. No copyright page found. Addeddate 2014-01-17 20:32:54 ...
American Notes, nonfiction book written by Charles Dickens, published in 1842. It is an account of his first visit to the United States, a five-month tour (January–June 1842) that led him to criticize the vulgarity and meanness he found there.
11 de jan. de 2008 · American writers inspired me. From Zane Grey to Isaac Asimov, American observations gave me an optimistic reason to return to the written page for more. Skim this if you want to get an arrogant British Empire opinion of backward Americans 100 years before WWII dissolved their Empire.
- Charles Dickens
4 de fev. de 2008 · In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-Indian Imperialist visiting the USA, these American Notes offer an interesting view of America in the 1880s. Kipling affects a wide-eyed innocence, and expresses astonishment at features of American life that ...
12 de mar. de 2008 · American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. Whilst there he acted as a critical observer of North American society, almost as if returning a status report on their progress.
- Charles Dickens
11 de dez. de 2020 · Over the decades, Daniel Aaron has made an extraordinary contribution to the study of American literature and culture. As social historian, critic, and literary journalist, Aaron has covered a diverse range of subjects in a flow of articles and review essays.
Yet Dickens is also critical of American society, its preoccupation with money, and reliance on slavery, as well as the rude, unsavory manners of Americans and their corrupt press. Above all, American Notes is a lively chronicle of what was for Dickens an illuminating encounter with the New World.
