Schetsen Uit Amerika

Schetsen uit Amerika

by Charles Dickens

Schetsen uit Amerika, een Nederlandse vertaling van Charles Dickens' 'American Notes', is een reisverslag van de schrijver tijdens zijn eerste bezoek aan de Verenigde Staten in 1842. Dickens, al een internationaal gevierd auteur, beschrijft zijn indrukken van de Amerikaanse samenleving, haar gewoonten, politiek, en de toen nog heersende slavernij. Hoewel hij bewondering heeft voor de democratische idealen van Amerika, spaart hij zijn kritiek op de gebreken van de natie niet. Hij spot met de Amerikaanse gewoonten en gesprekken, en bekritiseert de afwezigheid van auteursrechtbescherming die hem van inkomsten beroofde. Zijn observaties, vaak scherp en satirisch, bieden een uniek inzicht in Amerika in de 19e eeuw, en weerspiegelen tegelijkertijd Dickens' eigen standpunten en vooroordelen.

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Charles Dickens created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7 February 18...

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