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Author Malkovich, Amberyl, 1974- author.

Title Charles Dickens and the Victorian child : romanticizing and socializing the imperfect child / Amberyl Malkovich
Published New York : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 160 pages) : illustrations
Series Children's literature and culture
Children's literature and culture.
Contents Chapter 1. Please sir, I want some more : learning ... at any cost -- chapter 2. I believe, I believe! : fairies, their world, and authorial preservation -- chapter 3. Belittling and being little : resisting socially imposed physical and gendered limitations -- chapter 4. A beautiful decay : disease, death, and eternal longing of the imperfect child -- chapter 5. Mining the missing link : contemporary constructions of the imperfect child
Summary This book explores the ideas of children and childhood, and the construct of the ideal Victorian child that rapidly develop over the Victorian era along with literacy and reading material for the emerging mass reading public
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-150) and index
Notes English
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
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Subject Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 fast
Subject Children in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Children in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012032513
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