American notes ; Pictures from Italy

Description:

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.

subjects: Description and travel,  Social life and customs,  Travel,  United States,  English Novelists,  Journeys,  English essays,  National characteristics, american,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Early works to 1800,  Manners and customs,  Italy, description and travel,  United states, description and travel,  United states, social life and customs,  French poetry,  Old French,  Translations into Italian,  Medieval and modern Latin poetry,  Italian poetry,  Translations into French,  Translations

People: Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Places: United States,  Italy,  Canada,  Springfield (Mass.),  Massachusetts,  Springfield

Times: 1783-1865,  19th century