The Pleasures of Memory: Learning to Read with Charles Dickens

Contents

Contents List of Figures ix Preface xi Introduction: Dickens and the Pleasures of Memory 1 1. Memory’s Bonds: Associationism and the Freedom of Thought 31 2. Dickens’s Originality: Serial Fiction, Celebrity, and The Pickwick Papers 79 3. The Pleasures of Memory, Part I: Curiosity as Didacticism in The Old Curiosity Shop 144 4. The Pleasures of Memory, Part II: Epitaphic Reading and Cultural Memory 177 5. Learning by Heart in Our Mutual Friend 226 6. Dickens’s Laughter: School Reading and Democratic Literature, 1870–1940 270 Afterword 325 Notes 329 Bibliography 409 Index 437 vii ...