Charles Dickens and the Victorian Child - Romanticizing and Socializing the Imperfect Child

By examining some of Dickens's works that contain the imperfect child, Malkovich considers the construction, romanticization, and socialization of the Victorian child within work read by and for children during the Victorian Era, contending that the Victorian child can still be found in popular literatures read by children contemporarily.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Please Sir, I Want Some More: Learning…at Any Cost 2. I believe, I believe!: Fairies, Their World, and Authorial Preservation 3. Belittling and Being Little: Resisting Socially Imposed Physical and Gendered Limitations 4. A Beautiful Decay: Disease, Death and Eternal Longing of the Imperfect Child 5. Mining the Missing Link: Contemporary Constructions of the Imperfect Child Conclusion: The Perfection of Imperfection: The Consummation of the Misunderstood

Summary

By examining some of Dickens’s works that contain the imperfect child, Malkovich considers the construction, romanticization, and socialization of the Victorian child within work read by and for children during the Victorian Era, contending that the Victorian child can still be found in popular literatures read by children contemporarily.

Product details

• Authors: Amberyl Malkovich, Malkovich Amberyl
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2014
• EAN: 9781138850781
• ISBN: 978-1-138-85078-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Children's Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Society & culture: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Sociology: family & relationships, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Society and culture: general, Sociology: family and relationships, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general