Dickens and the children of empire / edited by Wendy S. Jacobson.

Other author Jacobson, Wendy S.
Format Book
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2000.
Descriptionx, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Characters. --Children.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Views on imperialism.
Parent and child in literature.
Literature and society--England. --History. --19th century.
Political fiction, English--History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Children in literature.
Colonies in literature.

Contents Spirit and the allegorical child : Little Nell's mortal aesthetic / John Bowen -- Dickens and the construction of the child / James R. Kincaid -- Suppressing narratives : childhood and empire in The Uncommercial Traveller and Great Expectations / Grahame Smith -- Imperial child : Bella, Our Mutual Friend, and the Victorian picturesque / Murray Baumgarten -- Dickens and 'gold rush fever' : colonial contagion in Household Words / Lillian Nayder -- Floating signifiers of Britishness in the novels of the anti-slave trade squadron / Catherine Gallagher -- Dickens and the Native American / Kate Flint -- Nationalism and violence : America in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit / Robert E. Lougy -- Girls underground, boys overseas : some graveyard vignettes / Catherine Robson -- 'What the waves were always saying' : Dombey and Son and textual ripples on an African shore / Malvern van Wyk Smith -- Savages and settlers in Dickens : reading multiple centres / Anthony Chennells -- Dickens in Africa : 'Africanizing' Hard Times / Greenwell Matsika -- Primitive and wingless : the colonial subject as child / Bill Ashcroft.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00041497

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