Dickens and the imagined child

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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 the relationship between childhood and memory and Part III addresses childhood reading and writing.

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Full title :Dickens and the imagined child / Peter Merchant and Catherine Waters.

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Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ashgate
Place of Publication:Farnham, Surrey
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

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Description:1 online resource : : illustrations

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ISBN:9781472423825, 1472423828, 9781472423832, 1472423836, 9781317151203, 1317151208
oclc:ocn898028625
LC Classification:PR4592.C46
Dewey Decimal:823/.8

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I: The Dickensian Child; 2 Dickens and the Knowing Child; 3 Who Stole the Child?: Missing Babies and Blank Identities in Early Dickens; 4"No magic dwelling-place in magic story": Time, Memory and the Enchanted Children of Dombey and Son; 5 "In a state of bondage": The Children of Bleak House; Part II Childhood and Memory; 6 The Adult Narrator's Memory of Childhood in David's, Esther's and Pip's Autobiographies; 7 A Medway Childhood: The Dickensian "arrière-pays"?

8 "Ten thousand million delights": Charles Dickens and the Childhood Wonder of the Pantomime Clown9 "A kind of odour of Salem House": David Copperfield and Thomas Anstey Guthrie; Part III Children, Reading and Writing; 10 Savage Stories: Charles Dickens, "The Noble Savage" and the Childhood Imagination; 11 Child Readers in Dickens's Novels; 12 Playful "Assumption": Dickens's Early Performative Creativity and its Influence on His Sons' Family Newspaper, the Gad's Hill Gazette; Index.