Dickens and the Imagined Child
Autor Peter Merchant, Catherine Watersen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 dec 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367880064
ISBN-10: 0367880067
Pagini: 226
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0367880067
Pagini: 226
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
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.
Notă biografică
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.
Recenzii
"This volume will supplement the rich literature on Dickens and reward those fascinated by this novelist and his immersion in the past's meaning. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - Choice Reviews
"The eleven essays in the collection provide stimulating new readings of Dickens’s work, offering a range of critical approaches and insights...every essay offers its own unique insights, and the volume attains a uniformly high academic standard throughout is wide-ranging and stimulating collection is an important addition to a fascinating area of Dickens scholarship." - Gill Ballinger, University of West England, Modern Language Review
"This volume will supplement the rich literature on Dickens and reward those fascinated by this novelist and his immersion in the past's meaning. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - Choice Reviews
"The eleven essays in the collection provide stimulating new readings of Dickens’s work, offering a range of critical approaches and insights...every essay offers its own unique insights, and the volume attains a uniformly high academic standard throughout is wide-ranging and stimulating collection is an important addition to a fascinating area of Dickens scholarship." - Gill Ballinger, University of West England, Modern Language Review
"Dickens and the Imagined Child is an enjoyable collection of essays that provide distinct interpretive models for analyzing representations of child and childhood in the novelist's works, life, and culture. The collection will serve as a valuable resource for curious readers and scholars of Dickensian writing in all of its various narrative forms and stylistic functions." - John Murray, Curry College
"The eleven essays in the collection provide stimulating new readings of Dickens’s work, offering a range of critical approaches and insights...every essay offers its own unique insights, and the volume attains a uniformly high academic standard throughout is wide-ranging and stimulating collection is an important addition to a fascinating area of Dickens scholarship." - Gill Ballinger, University of West England, Modern Language Review
"This volume will supplement the rich literature on Dickens and reward those fascinated by this novelist and his immersion in the past's meaning. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - Choice Reviews
"The eleven essays in the collection provide stimulating new readings of Dickens’s work, offering a range of critical approaches and insights...every essay offers its own unique insights, and the volume attains a uniformly high academic standard throughout is wide-ranging and stimulating collection is an important addition to a fascinating area of Dickens scholarship." - Gill Ballinger, University of West England, Modern Language Review
"Dickens and the Imagined Child is an enjoyable collection of essays that provide distinct interpretive models for analyzing representations of child and childhood in the novelist's works, life, and culture. The collection will serve as a valuable resource for curious readers and scholars of Dickensian writing in all of its various narrative forms and stylistic functions." - John Murray, Curry College
Descriere
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