Description:
A scholarly edition, annotated and illustrated, addressing the modern reader. Dickens fans and students will get to follow Dickens's itinerary and have it explained step by step.
Review Quotes:
"The edition's carefully chosen illustrations, introduction and extensive footnotes provide a valuable context for today's student. We learn about steam travel by boat, which was then new and hazardous, about the rash of American bank failures in 1837 to which the title ("notes for general circulation") alludes, and about the difficulties of emigration in the mid-nineteenth century. These historical themes are supplemented by contemporary illustrations of people and places ranging from the Lowell Mill factory girls to Tremont House in Boston to Niagara Falls...The availability of Archibald's new edition provides a useful text to supplement the social and political context of courses in British and American literature."
(Dickens Quarterly)