The New World in Dickens's Writings. Part Two

Spatial Representations in Charles Dickens’s New York and London

“…Dickens's American Notes can be read as a way, in which one can see "his artistic methods and limitations" (p. 464). To be more precise, as Heilman (1947) puts it, the American experience is Dickens's "source of materials to be used in satirizing Europe" (p. 21), in his later writings. At the first glance, in general, American Notes shows that Dickens "became disenchanted with many things American" (Waller, 1960, p. 535).…”