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Book
Title:
American notes ; and, Pictures from Italy
Other title(s):
Pictures from Italy
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ISBN:
9780192545190
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987, ©1957.
Physical Description:
xiv, 433 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Contents:
American notes: Going away -- The passage out -- Boston -- An American railroad. Lowell and its factory system -- Worcester. The Connecticut River. Hartford. New Haven. To New York -- New York -- Philadelphia, and its solitary prison -- Washington. The legislature. And the President's House -- A night steamer on the Potomac River. Virginia Road, and a Black driver. Richmond. Baltimore. The Harrisburg Mail, and a glimpse of the city. A canal boat -- Some further account of the canal boat, its domestic economy, and its passengers. Journey to Pittsburg across the Alleghany Mountains. Pittsburg -- From Pittsburg to Cincinnati in a western steamboat. Cincinnati -- From Cincinnati to Louisville in another western steamboat; and from Louisville to St. Louis in another. St. Louis -- A jaunt to the looking-glass prairie and back -- Return to Cincinnati. A stage-coach ride from that city to Columbus, and thence to Sandusky. So, by Lake Erie, the the Falls of Niagara -- In Canada ; Toronto ; Kingston ; Montreal ; Quebec ; St. John's. In the United States again ; Lebanon ; the Shaker village ; West Point -- The passage home -- Slavery -- Concluding remarks.
Pictures from Italy: The rader's passport -- Going through France -- Lyons, the Rhone, sand the Goblin of Avignon -- Avignon to Genoa -- Genoa and its neighbourhood -- To Parma, Modena, and Bologna -- Through Bologna and Ferrara -- An Italian dream -- By Verona, Mantua, and Milan, across the Pass of the Simplon into Switzerland -- To Rome by Pisa and Siena -- Rome -- A rapid diorama: To Naples ; Naples ; Pompeii--Herculaneum ; Pæstum ; Vesuvius ; Return to Naples ; Monte Cassino ; Florence.
Summary:
American Notes was the result of the author's five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickens's travelogue includes the glitter of Boston; a Broadway swarming with hogs; a gruesome penitentiary in Philadelphia; Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis; railways and steamboats. Its publication was greeted with dismay: what Dickens described as "honest and true" was regarded in America as "a compound of egotism, coxcombry and cockneyism", the product of "the most coarse, vulgar, impudent and superficial" writer ever to visit the country. Pictures from Italy is a colorful account of a tour made in 1844. - Jacket flap
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