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Was the marriage plot a bunch of folks who schemed and conned their way into marriage? Hit play to find out.
How did Americans and Brits feel about Dickens' comedy? Eh...let's just say it was the best of comedy, it was the worst of comedy.
How has Dickens impacted culture today? We don't know about you, but we watch A Muppet's Christmas Carol every year, so...that's probably the answe...
Charles Dickens 20 What Was His Comedy Like 36 Views
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How did Americans and Brits feel about Dickens' comedy? Eh...let's just say it was the best of comedy, it was the worst of comedy.
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Thank you We sneak Charles dickens What was dickins comedy
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like la shmoop at the time when he was writing
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insulting or making fun of americans was extremely popular in
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britain and it was a really easy way to sell
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novels and to get people to read because it was
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funny and people really thought about americans maybe even rightly
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so to a certain extent because we have to realize
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it was still very much a pioneer nation and only
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stretched out as far as the mississippi So you definitely
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had uneducated people people who were living and you know
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backwater hamlet it was very fun for the british and
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funny to make fun of americans americans didn't see it
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that theo americans hate it What chicken was said about
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them in the nonfiction the characters were obvious who he
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was talking about but even thinly veiled in the novel
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versions of what he said about americans and some of
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them he went so far as to talk about the
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president of united states He would talk about new women
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about how american women were so mouthy and so forward
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in america because of the political system and talking about
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politicians and how corrupt they were because of all the
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money they were taking in there and the lobbyists and
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so forth All of that was very thinly veiled and
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he just got nash by critics They read him for
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it and i just didn't have anything to do with
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him It was a while until the americans welcome to
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excited that for another visit Chickens was aware of us
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those well in the preface to something like martin charles
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of what he says something like i know that the
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americans have good enough sense of humor to take this
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the way they should and to accept like objective criticism
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It's One thing to have an englishman criticized the english
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but if you're foreigner holding americans it still doesn't work
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now What negative portrait of americans to dickens paint How
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did americans feel about dickens comedy How did the british
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feel about diggins comedy no america to britain You'll always 00:02:07.57 --> [endTime] be the colonies
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