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Author:

Shutt, Timothy Baker.

Title:

Dickens and Twain [sound recording] : capturing 19th century Britain and America / Timothy B. Shutt.

Format:

[sound recording] :

Publisher:

Recorded Books,

Copyright Date:

2013, p2013

Description:

4 sound discs (ca. 4 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870.
Twain, Mark,--1835-1910.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
England--Social conditions--19th century.
United States--Social conditions--19th century.
Comparative literature--American and English.
Comparative literature--English and American.
Audiobooks.

Other Authors:

Recorded Books, LLC.
Crescite Group, LLC.

Notes:

Compact disc. Title from container. Lecture given by Timothy B. Shutt. Release date supplied by publisher. Recording originally produced by Crescite Group, LLC, p2013. In container (17 cm.). "8 lectures"--Container. Shutt delivers a thought-provoking exploration of the worlds of two of the greatest authors of the 19th century: Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. Although these literary giants lived on opposite sides of the Atlantic, fascinating comparisons can be made in their use of language, humor, evocation of character, and evaluation of the social world.

Contents:

Introduction -- The life of Charles Dickens -- The life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain -- Autobiography and childhood: Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn -- Autobiography and childhood: Charles Dickens, David Copperfield -- Twain and Dickens: visions of society -- Twain and Dickens: moral and religious vision -- Twain and Dickens: women, sexuality, and final assessment.

Series:

The modern scholar

ISBN:

147034663X
9781470346638

OCLC:

(OCoLC)860805345

Locations:

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)