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

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Palgrave, 2000.
Description
x, 211 pages ; 23 cm

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Related name
Jacobson, Wendy S. [Browse]
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • 1. Introduction / Wendy S. Jacobson
  • 2. Spirit and the Allegorical Child: Little Nell's Mortal Aesthetic / John Bowen
  • 3. Dickens and the Construction of the Child / James R. Kincaid
  • 4. Suppressing Narratives: Childhood and Empire in The Uncommercial Traveller and Great Expectations / Grahame Smith
  • 5. The Imperial Child: Bella, Our Mutual Friend, and the Victorian Picturesque / Murray Baumgarten
  • 6. Dickens and 'Gold Rush Fever': Colonial Contagion in Household Words / Lillian Nayder
  • 7. Floating Signifiers of Britishness in the Novels of the Anti-Slave-Trade Squadron / Catherine Gallagher
  • 8. Dickens and the Native American / Kate Flint
  • 9. Nationalism and Violence: America in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit / Robert E. Lougy
  • 10. Girls Underground, Boys Overseas: Some Graveyard Vignettes / Catherine Robson
  • 11. 'What the waves were always saying': Dombey and Son and Textual Ripples on an African Shore / Malvern van Wyk Smith --
  • 12. Savages and Settlers in Dickens: Reading Multiple Centres / Anthony Chennells
  • 13. Dickens in Africa: 'Africanizing' Hard Times / Greenwell Matsika
  • 14. Primitive and Wingless: The Colonial Subject as Child / Bill Ashcroft.
ISBN
0333770447
LCCN
00041497
OCLC
44172928
RCP
C - S
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