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Sarah Winter - The Pleasures of Memory: Learning to Read with Charles Dickens - 9780823233526 - V9780823233526
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The Pleasures of Memory: Learning to Read with Charles Dickens

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Description for The Pleasures of Memory: Learning to Read with Charles Dickens Hardback. Num Pages: 486 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 794.

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 in which Dickens’s serial fiction shaped not only the popular practice of reading for pleasure and instruction but also the school subject we now know as “English.”
Winter shows how Dickens’s serial fiction instigated specific reading practices by reworking the conventions of religious didactic tracts from which most Victorians learned to read. Incorporating an influential associationist psychology of learning ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
486
Condition
New
Number of Pages
486
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823233526
SKU
V9780823233526
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Sarah Winter
Sarah Winter is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Reviews for The Pleasures of Memory: Learning to Read with Charles Dickens
"It is well known that Dickens established an 'imagined community' founded on his own writing and authorial presence; in her intriguing book, Sarah Winter reveals how he did it. Analyzing the relation between serialization, reading, and memory, and detailing the extraordinary means by which Dickens made himself an institution by appearing to subvert the very nature of institutions, Winter shows ... Read more

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