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Title:

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

Publisher:

Palgrave,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

x, 211 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Children.--Children.
Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Views on imperialism.
Parent and child in literature.
Literature and society--England--History--19th century.
Political fiction, English--History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Children in literature.
Colonies in literature.

Other Authors:

Jacobson, Wendy S.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents:

Primitive and wingless : the colonial subject as child / Bill Ashcroft. Dickens and the construction of the child / James R. Kincaid -- Suppressing narratives : childhood and empire in The Uncommercial Traveller and Great Expectations / Grahame Smith -- Imperial child : Bella, Our Mutual Friend, and the Victorian picturesque / Murray Baumgarten -- Dickens and 'gold rush fever' : colonial contagion in Household Words / Lillian Nayder -- Floating signifiers of Britishness in the novels of the anti-slave trade squadron / Catherine Gallagher -- Dickens and the Native American / Kate Flint -- Nationalism and violence : America in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit / Robert E. Lougy -- Girls underground, boys overseas : some graveyard vignettes / Catherine Robson -- 'What the waves were always saying' : Dombey and Son and textual ripples on an African shore / Malvern van Wyk Smith -- Savages and settlers in Dickens : reading multiple centres / Anthony Chennells -- Dickens in Africa : 'Africanizing' Hard Times / Greenwell Matsika -- Primitive and wingless : the colonial subject as child / Bill Ashcroft.

ISBN:

9780333770443
0333770447

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44172928

LCCN:

00041497

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)