Dickens and Margolyes in America
Dickens and Margolyes in America

Summary/Abstract: In 1842 Charles Dickens published American Notes, a record of his impressions made on his first journey to America in the same year. In 2005, Lion Television, in cooperation with the BBC, released a ten-episode documentary series Dickens in America. The host of the series is British actress Miriam Margolyes, who retraces the writer‟s 1842 route and compares his impressions upon particular sights with her own opinions formed while traveling across the United States and Canada on the threshold of the third millennium. The aim of the article is to examine selected fragments of Dickens‟s American Notes, and juxtapose them with the visual material presented in the Dickens in America series.

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