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American Notes for General Circulation [Two Volumes]

by Dickens, Charles

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Chapman and Hall, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. London, 1852. 8vo, green cloth, 308 + 306 pp. First edition, first issue, in a possibly later green cloth with morocco spine labels. With the bookseller ticket of Mitchell Booksellers of Old Bond St., suggesting possibly a bookseller binding. With yellow endpapers, as called for. An exceptionally preserved set in fine condition with minimal shelfwear. Edges of pages speckled. Points checked per Walter Smith's Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth. " Hardly less joyous were Dickens's reunions with his friends Forster, Macready, Maclise, Stanfield, and others but he soon had to buckle down to the writing of his promised American travel book. The furore over international copyright continued, fed by a circular letter Dickens wrote on the topic (on 7 July) which got into American newspapers alongside a forged letter in which he was maliciously represented as branding America a country of gross manners and squalid money-making. There was copious and vehement editorializing about this seemingly clear evidence of Dickens's snobbishness and ingratitude. Against this background he wrote his promised travel book for Chapman and Hall, American Notes, for General Circulation (2 vols.), which appeared on 19 October. In it Dickens praised many of America's public institutions but condemned the national worship of 'smartness' (that is, sharp practice), and attacked particularly the hypocrisy and venality of the American press. He also commented unfavourably on many aspects of American social life, notably the widespread habit of spitting in public, and, predictably, denounced slavery at some length. American Notes sold well but attracted little favourable comment in Britain (Macaulay deemed it 'at once frivolous and dull'; Collins, Critical Heritage, 124) and, unsurprisingly, it met with a very hostile reception in the American press." - Oxford DNB. Please contact us for additional pictures or information.
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