(DOWNLOAD) "Claiming Truth: Dickens and American Notes." by Nineteenth-Century Prose # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free

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Title: Claiming Truth: Dickens and American Notes.
Author : Nineteenth-Century Prose
Release Date : January 22, 1996
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 180 KB

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Abstract Dickens' insistence on the "truth" of American Notes began before publication and carried on through the preface to the cheap edition eight years later. He was understandably wary that he might be accused of falsity or slander by the American press. Modern readers understand this but may be tempted by the claims to consider the contingent nature of Dickens' "truth." What can we identify or perhaps speculate upon as bearing upon him so as to alter and shape his text? In what directions was his seeing modified by particular pressures, by generic form, by his earlier travel writings, by what he could see and report upon? The energy and genius of its thirty-year-old author are of course the book's primary shapers. No "truth" of his can be plumbed or accounted for.