Abstract

List of Figures Preface Introduction: Dickens and the Pleasures of Memory 1. Memory's Bonds: Associationism and the Freedom of Thought 2. Dickens's Originality: Serial Fiction, Celebrity, and The Pickwick Papers 3. The Pleasures of Memory, Part I: Curiosity as Didacticism in The Old Curiosity Shop 4. The Pleasures of Memory, Part II: Epitaphic Reading and Cultural Memory 5. Learning by Heart in Our Mutual Friend 6. Dickens's Laughter: School Reading and Democratic Literature, 1870-1940 Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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