THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY .................17990$ $$FM 04-15-1112:16:09 PS PAGEi .................17990$ $$FM 04-15-1112:16:10 PS PAGEii THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY Learning to Read with Charles Dickens (cid:2) Sarah Winter FordhamUniversityPress NewYork 2011 .................17990$ $$FM 04-15-1112:16:10 PS PAGEiii Copyright(cid:2)2011FordhamUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans—electronic, mechanical,photocopy,recording,oranyother—exceptforbriefquotations inprintedreviews,withoutthepriorpermissionofthepublisher. FordhamUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyInternetwebsitesreferredtoin thispublicationanddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis, orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. FordhamUniversityPressalsopublishesitsbooksinavarietyofelectronic formats.Somecontentthatappearsinprintmaynotbeavailablein electronicbooks. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Winter,Sarah. Thepleasuresofmemory:learningtoreadwithCharlesDickens/Sarah Winter.—1sted. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-8232-3352-6(cloth:alk.paper) ISBN978-0-8232-3354-0(ebook) 1. Dickens,Charles,1812–1870—Influence. 2.Collectivememoryand literature. 3.Booksandreading—Psychologicalaspects. 4.Booksand reading—History—19thcentury. I.Title. PR4588.W56 2011 823(cid:2).8—dc22 2010050791 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 13 12 11 5 4 3 2 1 Firstedition .................17990$ $$FM 04-15-1112:16:10 PS PAGEiv For Panos and Alexia .................17990$ $$FM 04-15-1112:16:10 PS PAGEv .................17990$ $$FM 04-15-1112:16:10 PS PAGEvi Contents ListofFigures ix Preface xi Introduction:DickensandthePleasuresofMemory 1 1. Memory’sBonds:AssociationismandtheFreedom ofThought 31 2. Dickens’sOriginality:SerialFiction,Celebrity, andThePickwickPapers 79 3. ThePleasuresofMemory,PartI:CuriosityasDidacticism inTheOldCuriosityShop 144 4. ThePleasuresofMemory,PartII:EpitaphicReading andCulturalMemory 177 5. LearningbyHeartinOurMutualFriend 226 6. Dickens’sLaughter:SchoolReadingandDemocratic Literature,1870–1940 270 Afterword 325 Notes 329 Bibliography 409 Index 437 vii .................17990$ CNTS 04-15-1112:16:13 PS PAGEvii .................17990$ CNTS 04-15-1112:16:13 PS PAGEviii Figures 1. TitlepageandsamplepagesfromLindleyMurray, AnEnglishSpellingBook 64 2. TitlepagefromJohnMay;orTheLifeofaGoodBoy 65 3. CoveroftheoriginalserialeditionofThePosthumous PapersofthePickwickClub 89 4. H.K.Browne,‘‘PaulandMrs.Pipchin’’ 132 5. MargaretGillies,PortraitofCharlesDickens 134 6. DanielMaclise,‘‘DickensReadingTheChimes inJohnForster’sRooms’’ 137 7. SolomonEytingeJr.,LithographportraitofCharles Dickens 138 8. GeorgeHerbertWatkins,‘‘CharlesDickensGivinga PublicReading’’ 142 9. GeorgeCruikshank,‘‘ThePoorClerk’’ 181 10. GeorgeCattermole,‘‘LittleNellintheGothicChurch’’ 200 11. FrontispiecetoTheNormalCourseinReading, FifthReader 298 ix .................17990$ FIGS 04-15-1112:16:16 PS PAGEix .................17990$ FIGS 04-15-1112:16:16 PS PAGEx