Dickens and the Grown-Up Child

✍ Scribed by Malcolm Andrews (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-8
The Idea of Childhood: A Genealogy....Pages 9-26
The Savage, the Child and the Caves of Ignorance....Pages 27-40
‘The Birthplace of his Fancy’....Pages 41-56
‘Where We Stopped Growing’....Pages 57-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-72
Grown-up Children in the Novels....Pages 73-96
Christmas and Rejuvenation....Pages 97-111
Dombey and Son: The New-Fashioned Man and the Old-Fashioned Child....Pages 112-134
David Copperfield — 1: Children and the Childlike....Pages 135-148
David Copperfield — 2: The Trials of Maturity....Pages 149-171
Childhood as Counter-Culture....Pages 172-181
Back Matter....Pages 183-214

✦ Subjects

Nineteenth-Century Literature; British and Irish Literature