The Pleasures of Memory: Learning to Read with Charles Dickens

by Sarah Winter

Book Overview

What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Rendering literary history responsive to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The Pleasures of Memory illuminates the ways that Dickens's serial fiction shaped not only the popular practice of reading for pleasure and instruction associated with the growth of periodical publication...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823233537
• ISBN13: 9780823233533
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"