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Dickens and the Imagined Child (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Dickens and the Imagined Child (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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 Dickens
and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of
the child and childhood within Dickens's 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's-eye view was reabsorbed into
Dickens's mature sensibility. The essays in Part III focus upon
reading and writing as particularly significant aspects of
childhood experience; from Dickens's 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's 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's 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.
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