Bracher, Peter. "The Early American Editions of American Notes: Their Priority and Circulation." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 69 (1975): 365-76.
---. "The New York Herald and American Notes." Dickens Studies 5 (1969): 81-85.
---."Thwarting the Pirates: Timing and the Publication of American Notes." Dickens Studies Newsletter 7 (1976): 33-34.
Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning. "Topographic Disaffection in Dickens's American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 93:1 (1994): 35-54.
Fielding, K. J. "American Notes and some English Reviewers." Modern Language Review 59 (1964): 527-537.
Gitter, Elisabeth G. "Charles Dickens and Samuel Gridley Howe." Dickens Quarterly 8:4 (1991): 162-68.
Heineman, Helen K. Three Victorians in the New World. New
York: Peter Lang,
1992.
-- Chapters on
American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit, as well as
books by Frances Trollope and Anthony Trollope; a study of what these English
writers
learned in (and about) America and how they incorporated their experience into
their fiction.
Lackey, Kris. "Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory and the Nineteenth- Century Traveler in Trans-Allegheny America: F. Trollope, Dickens, Irving, and Parkman." American Studies 32:1 (1991): 22-48.
Meckier, Jerome. "Dickens Discovers America, Dickens Discovers Dickens: The First Visit Reconsidered." Modern Language Review 79:2 (1984): 266-77.
---. Innocent Abroad: Charles Dickens's American Enlargements. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1990.
Moss, Sidney P. Charles Dickens' Quarrel with America. New
York: Whitston, 1984.
-- A history of both the
1842 and 1867-68 tours of America; particularly useful to those interested in
Dickens' war with the American Press and with copyright pirates.
---. "Longfellow's Uncollected 'Letter to the Editor': Defending Dickens's American Notes." Dickens Studies Newsletter 20 (1979): 4-7.
---. "South Carolina Contemplates Banning Dickens's American Notes." The Dickensian 80:3 (1984): 156-62.
Slater, Michael, ed. Dickens on America and the Americans.
Austin: University of
Texas Press, 1978.
-- Useful
excerpts from reviews and letters, as well as illustrations from
contemporary journals.
For other introductions to the text, see the editions by John S. Whitley and Arnold Goldman (Penguin 1972), and by Christopher Hitchens (Modern Library 1996).