Peter Merchant, Catherine Waters

Dickens and the Imagined Child

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Produktbeschreibung

In Dickens and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens's imagination and reflect on the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic. Part I begins by proposing a typology of the Dickensian child that is followed by discussions of specific child characters, while Part II focuses on

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780367880064
• ISBN-10: 0367880067
• Artikelnr.: 58439555

Autorenporträt

Peter Merchant is Principal Lecturer in English at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, and Catherine Waters is Professor of Victorian Literature and Print Culture at the University of Kent, UK, and an Honorary Affiliate of the University of Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The Dickensian Child: Dickens and the knowing child Who stole the
child?: missing babies and blank identities in early Dickens. 'No magic
dwelling-place in magic story': time, memory and the enchanted children of
Dombey and Son. 'In a state of bondage': the children of Bleak House. Part
2 Childhood and Memory: The adult narrator's memory of childhood in David's
Esther's and Pip's autobiographies. A Medway childhood: the Dickensian
'arriere-pays'? 'Ten thousand million delights': Charles Dickens and the
childhood wonder of the pantomime clown. 'A kind of odour of Salem House':
David Copperfield and Thomas Anstey Guthrie. Part 3 Children, Reading and
Writing: Savage stories: Charles Dickens, 'The Noble Savage' and the
childhood imagination. Child readers in Dickens's novels. Playful
'assumption': Dickens's early performative creativity and its influence on
his sons' family newspaper, The Gad's Hill Gazette.