Charles Dickens's American Audience

During the time when the American nation was emerging the novels of a British author Charles Dickens contributed significantly to the making of American culture. The unique contribution of <I>Charles Dickens's American Audience</I> is the focus upon the testimony of Dickens's American readers as a unique reading community: how his fiction intersected with their real lives how he impacted American publishing literacy and educational reform and how Americans loved the theatricality that Dickens brought to their lives.