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The Pleasures of Memory: Learning to Read with Charles Dickens,Used
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What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Rendering literary history responsive to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The Pleasures of Memory illuminates the ways in which Dickenss serial fiction shaped not only the popular practice of reading for pleasure and instruction but also the school subject we now know as English.Winter shows how Dickenss serial fiction instigated specific reading practices by reworking the conventions of religious didactic tracts from which most Victorians learned to read. Incorporating an influential associationist psychology of learning founded on the cumulative functioning of memory, Dickenss serial novels consistently led readers to reflect on their reading as a form of shared experience.Dickenss celebrity authorship, Winter argues, represented both a successful marketing program for popular fiction and a cultural politics addressed to a politically unaffiliated, socialactivist Victorian readership. As latenineteenth century educational reforms consolidated British and American readers into mass populations served by state school systems, Dickenss beloved novels came to embody the socially inclusive and humanizing goals of democratic education.
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