Dickens and the children of empire
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Dickens and the children of empire
Palgrave, 2000
Available at 27 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Dickens and the Children of Empire examines the themes of childhood and empire throughout Dickens' oeuvre. The prestigious group of contributors initiate and extend debates on the subjects of post-colonialism, literature of the child and present childhood as an apt metaphor for the colonized subject in Dickens' work.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction
- W.S.Jacobson Spirit and the Allegorical Child: Little Nell's Mortal Aesthetic
- J.Bowen Dickens and the Construction of the Child
- J.Kincaid Suppressing Narratives: Childhood ad Empire in The Uncommercial Traveller and Great Expectations
- G.Smith The Imperial Child: Bella, Our Mutual Friend , and the Victorian Picturesque
- M.Baumgarten Dickens and Gold Rush Fever: Colonial Contagion in Household Words
- L.Nayder Floating Signifiers of Britishness in the Novels of the Anti-Slave-Trade Squadron
- C.Gallagher Dickens and the Native American
- K.Flint Nationalism and Violence: America in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit
- R.E.Lougy Girls Underground, Boys Overseas: Some Graveyard Vignettes
- C.Robson What the Waves were Always Saying: Dombey and Son and Textual Ripples on an African Shore
- M.V.W.Smith Savages and Settlers in Dickens: Reading Multiple Centres
- A.Chennells Dickens in Africa: Africanizing Hard Times
- G.Matsika Primitive and Wingless: The Colonial Subject as Child
- B.Ashcroft Index
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