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Dickens and the Children of Empire
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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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Contributors
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Spirit and the Allegorical Child: Little Nellâs Mortal Aesthetic
- 3. Dickens and the Construction of the Child
- 4. Suppressing Narratives: Childhood and Empire in The Uncommercial Traveller and Great Expectations
- 5. The Imperial Child: Bella, Our Mutual Friend, and the Victorian Picturesque
- 6. Dickens and âGold Rush Feverâ:Colonial Contagion in Household Words
- 7. Floating Signifiers of Britishness in the Novels of the Anti-Slave-Trade Squadron
- 8. Dickens and the Native American
- 9. Nationalism and Violence: America in Charles Dickensâs Martin Chuzzlewit
- 10. Girls Underground, Boys Overseas: Some Graveyard Vignettes
- 11. âWhat the waves were always sayingâ: Dombey and Son and Textual Ripples on an African Shore
- 12. Savages and Settlers in Dickens: Reading Multiple Centres
- 13. Dickens in Africa: âAfricanizingâ Hard Times
- 14. Primitive and Wingless: the Colonial Subject as Child
- Index