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Titre(s) : Dickens and the imagined child [Texte imprimé] / [edited by] Peter Merchant and Catherine Waters
Publication : Farnham (GB) ; Bulrington (Vt.) : Ashgate, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-210 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with
children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of
Dickens. In this book, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood
within Dickens & imagination and reflect on the cultural resonance of his engagement
with this topic. Part I of the collection examines the Dickensian child as both characteristic
type and particular example, proposing a typology of the Dickensian child that is
followed by discussions of specific children in 'Oliver Twist', 'Dombey and Son',
and 'Bleak House'. Part II focuses on the relationship between childhood and memory,
by examining the various ways in which the child & eye view was reabsorbed into Dickens
& mature sensibility. The essays in Part III focus upon reading and writing as particularly
significant aspects of childhood experience; from Dickens & childhood reading of
tales of adventure, they move to discussion of the child readers in his novels and
finally to a consideration of his own early writings alongside those that his children
contributed to the Gad & Hill Gazette. The collection therefore builds a picture of
the remembered experiences of childhood being realised anew, both by Dickens and through
his inspiring example, in the imaginative creations that they came to inform. While
the protagonist of David Copperfield-that 'favourite child' among Dickens & novels-comes
to think of his childhood self as something which he 'left behind upon the road of
life', for Dickens himself, leafing continually through his own back pages, there
can be no putting away of childish things
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Merchant, Peter. Éditeur scientifique
Waters, Catherine. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) -- Thèmes, motifs
Enfants -- Dans la littérature
Enfants et adultes -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781472423818 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 147242381X (hardcover) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9781472423825 (erroné) (ebk-PDF). - ISBN 9781472423832 (erroné) (ebk-ePUB)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44280719c
Notice n° :
FRBNF44280719
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