Amberyl Malkovich

Charles Dickens and the Victorian Child (eBook, ePUB)

Romanticizing and Socializing the Imperfect Child

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By examining some of Dickens's works that contain the imperfect child, Malkovich considers the construction, romanticization, and socialization of the Victorian child within work read by and for children during the Victorian Era, contending that the Victorian child can still be found in popular literatures read by children contemporarily.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135074258
• Artikelnr.: 38403413

Autorenporträt

Amberyl Malkovich is Assistant Professor of Victorian Literature, Children's and Young Adult Literature and Gender Studies at Concord University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Please Sir, I Want Some More: Learning...at Any Cost 2. I
believe, I believe!: Fairies, Their World, and Authorial Preservation 3.
Belittling and Being Little: Resisting Socially Imposed Physical and
Gendered Limitations 4. A Beautiful Decay: Disease, Death and Eternal
Longing of the Imperfect Child 5. Mining the Missing Link: Contemporary
Constructions of the Imperfect Child Conclusion: The Perfection of
Imperfection: The Consummation of the Misunderstood