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Dickens and the Children of Empire

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  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. Wendy S. Jacobson

    1. Shakespeare Institute in Birmingham, University College of Rhodesia, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Wendy S. Jacobson
    Pages 1-12

  3. Spirit and the Allegorical Child: Little Nell’s Mortal Aesthetic

    • John Bowen
    Pages 13-28

  4. Dickens and the Construction of the Child

    • James R. Kincaid
    Pages 29-42

  5. Suppressing Narratives: Childhood and Empire in The Uncommercial Traveller and Great Expectations

    • Grahame Smith
    Pages 43-53

  6. The Imperial Child: Bella, Our Mutual Friend, and the Victorian Picturesque

    • Murray Baumgarten
    Pages 54-66

  7. Dickens and ‘Gold Rush Fever’: Colonial Contagion in Household Words

    • Lillian Nayder
    Pages 67-77

  8. Floating Signifiers of Britishness in the Novels of the Anti-Slave-Trade Squadron

    • Catherine Gallagher
    Pages 78-93

  9. Dickens and the Native American

    • Kate Flint
    Pages 94-104

  10. Nationalism and Violence: America in Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit

    • Robert E. Lougy
    Pages 105-115

  11. Girls Underground, Boys Overseas: Some Graveyard Vignettes

    • Catherine Robson
    Pages 116-127

  12. ‘What the waves were always saying’: Dombey and Son and Textual Ripples on an African Shore

    • Malvern van Wyk Smith
    Pages 128-152

  13. Savages and Settlers in Dickens: Reading Multiple Centres

    • Anthony Chennells
    Pages 153-172

  14. Dickens in Africa: ‘Africanizing’ Hard Times

    • Greenwell Matsika
    Pages 173-183

  15. Primitive and Wingless: the Colonial Subject as Child

    • Bill Ashcroft
    Pages 184-202

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 203-211
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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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'In their many and varied ways, the articles in Dickens and the Children of Empire interrogate modern constructions of childhood and empire, as espoused or subverted in works by writers such as Dickens, and examine the relationship between images of infantilism and imperialism. All of the articles in this diverse and imaginative collection will prove an invaluable resource for any student, researcher, or lecturer interested in Dickens, imperialism, and images of childhood...' - Jonathan Taylor, Loughborough University, MLR

Editors and Affiliations

  • Shakespeare Institute in Birmingham, University College of Rhodesia, USA

    Wendy S. Jacobson

About the editor

BILL ASHCROFT Lecturer, University of New South Wales, Sydney MURRAY BAUMGARTEN Founding Director of the Dickens Project and Lecturer at Santa Cruz campus, University of California JOHN BOWEN Lecturer in English, Keele University ANTHONY CHENNELLS Researcher and Author KATE FLINT Reader in English, University of Oxford CATHERINE GALLAGHER Eggers Professor of English Literature, University of California, Berkeley JAMES R. KINCAID Author ROBERT E. LOUGY Lecturer, Pennsylvania State University GREENWELL MATSIKA Lecturer, University of the North in South Africa, Zimbabwe LILLIAN NAYDER Associate Professor of English, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine CATHERINE ROBSON Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Davis GRAHAME SMITH Professor of English Studies, University of Stirling MALVERN VAN WYK SMITH Professor of English, Rhodes University, South Africa

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