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The Pleasures of Memory : Learning to Read with Charles Dickens / Sarah Winter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (486 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823233526
  • 9780823266197
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.8 22
LOC classification:
  • PR4588
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Introduction. Dickens and the Pleasures of Memory -- 1. Memory's Bonds -- 2. Dickens's Originality -- 3. The Pleasures of Memory, Part I -- 4. The Pleasures of Memory, Part II -- 5. Learning by Heart in Our Mutual Friend -- 6. Dickens's Laughter -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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 founded on the cumulative functioning of memory, Dickens's serial novels consistently led readers to reflect on their reading as a form of shared experience.Dickens's celebrity authorship, Winter argues, represented both a successful marketing program for popular fiction and a cultural politics addressed to a politically unaffiliated, social-activist Victorian readership. As late-nineteenth century educational reforms consolidated British and American readers into "mass" populations served by state school systems, Dickens's beloved novels came to embody the socially inclusive and humanizing goals of democratic education.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Introduction. Dickens and the Pleasures of Memory -- 1. Memory's Bonds -- 2. Dickens's Originality -- 3. The Pleasures of Memory, Part I -- 4. The Pleasures of Memory, Part II -- 5. Learning by Heart in Our Mutual Friend -- 6. Dickens's Laughter -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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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 founded on the cumulative functioning of memory, Dickens's serial novels consistently led readers to reflect on their reading as a form of shared experience.Dickens's celebrity authorship, Winter argues, represented both a successful marketing program for popular fiction and a cultural politics addressed to a politically unaffiliated, social-activist Victorian readership. As late-nineteenth century educational reforms consolidated British and American readers into "mass" populations served by state school systems, Dickens's beloved novels came to embody the socially inclusive and humanizing goals of democratic education.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)