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I am currently reading my way chronologically through Dickens’ novels.  I started this reading project last year, but as I’m not reading them back to back (and I’m actually quite a slow reader), I’m only as far as The Old Curiosity Shop.  With the tale of Little Nell still fresh in my mind, I was interested […]

I had quite a bit of interest when I wrote about this book over on The New Antiquarian, so thought I’d share it here, too.  I’ve written before about a fictitious Boston imprint.  That book had no obvious connection with the United States, but this one does: it’s an early satire on emigration to America, from 1818. […]

‘At the time of the October Revolution, the Russians based their conception of American culture on a combination of impressions derived from books of fact and fiction …  There was no dearth of facts about the United States, but there were huge quantities of misinformation and myth. ‘American literature in tsarist times had done little to […]