Dickens and Childhood
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-10979-7 (ISBN)
Laura Peters is Principal Lecturer, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton, UK
Contents: Introduction; Part I Biography: Early years: London,1822-27, Michael Slater. Part II The Romantic Child in Victorian Times: The 'cult of sensibility' and the 'romantic child', Peter Coveney; Introductory: Dickens, romantic psychology and 'the experience of modernity', Dirk den Hartog; Ambivalence and contradictions: the child in Victorian fiction, Jacqueline P. Banerjee; Dickens, David and Pip, Jerome Hamilton Buckley; The savage, the child and the caves of ignorance, Malcolm Andrews; 'Received, a blank child': John Brownlow, Charles Dickens and the London Foundling Hospital - archives and fictions, Jenny Bourne Taylor. Part III Childhood and the Family: The uncanny daughter: Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, and the progress of Little Nell, Hilary M. Schor; Fractured families in the early novels: Oliver Twist and Dombey and Son, Catherine Waters; Reconfiguring the domestic: bachelor Dads, Holly Furneaux; Nation and generation in A Tale of Two Cities, Albert D. Hutter; From blood to law: the embarrassments of family in Dickens, Helena Michie. Part IV The Child, Empire and Difference: Suppressing narratives: childhood and empire in The Uncommercial Traveller and Great Expectations, Grahame Smith; Children of empire: Victorian imperialism and sexual politics in Dickens and Kipling, Deirdre David; Dickens and cannibalism: the unpardonable sin, Harry Stone; Heredity, class and race, Goldie Morgentaler; Girls underground, boys overseas: some graveyard vignettes, Catherine Robson; English cannibalism: Dickens after 1859, James E. Marlow; The Bluebeard barometer: Charles Dickens and Captain Murderer, Shuli Barzilai; Popular orphan adventure narratives, Laura Peters. Part V The Child as a Theoretical Vehicle: Dickensian deformed children and the Hegelian sublime, Jonathan Loesberg; Spirit and the allegorical child: Little Nell's mortal aesthetic, John Bowen; Name index.
Erscheinungsdatum | 04.07.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 174 x 246 mm |
Gewicht | 453 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-10979-7 / 1138109797 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-10979-7 / 9781138109797 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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