Notes on Traveling to America (dickens Collection)
by H
About This Novel
From January to June 1842, Dickens, who was only thirty years old, accepted the invitation of the famous American writer Washington Irving and other friends to travel to the United States. The long travelogue and feature "Notes on a Travel in America" is the main result of Dickens's visit to the United States. During this trip, he visited big cities such as Boston, New York and Philadelphia on the east coast, went south to Richmond, west to St. Louis, and north to Montreal, Canada. During the journey that lasted for half a year, the young writer had extensive contact with people from all walks of life in the United States, from the president to the coachman, through visits, interviews, public gatherings and private meetings, and recorded the writer's experiences, observations and perceptions one by one. Dickens both admired and criticized this vibrant young republic. In particular, Dickens observed and criticized the rough and vulgar American style, the overly strong atmosphere of profit-seeking, the barbaric slavery system, and the brutal conquest of Indians. This was exactly the same as Mark Twain, the equally acerbic American writer who was dedicated to describing the Gilded Age. The trip to North America also became an important source of inspiration for the novel "Martin Qu Shuwei".
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