Author: Andrea WarrenPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547395744
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
Author: Andrea WarrenPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547395744
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
A Boy Called Dickens
Author: Deborah HopkinsonPublisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 0375987401
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
For years Dickens kept the story of his own childhood a secret. Yet it is a story worth telling. For it helps us remember how much we all might lose when a child's dreams don't come true . . . As a child, Dickens was forced to live on his own and work long hours in a rat-infested blacking factory. Readers will be drawn into the winding streets of London, where they will learn how Dickens got the inspiration for many of his characters. The 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth was February 7, 2012, and this tale of his little-known boyhood is the perfect way to introduce kids to the great author. This Booklist Best Children's Book of the Year is historical fiction at its ingenious best.
Dickens
Author: Fred KaplanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
Charles Dickens Books
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Chimes A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of Christmas books five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840's.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Author: Charles DickensThe Children of Charles Dickens
Author: Frank R. DonovanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Dickens and the Imagined Child
Author: Peter MerchantPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317151208
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In Dickens and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens’s imagination and reflect on the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic. Part I of the collection examines the Dickensian child as both characteristic type and particular example, proposing a typology of the Dickensian child that is followed by discussions of specific children in Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House. Part II focuses on the relationship between childhood and memory, by examining the various ways in which the child’s-eye view was reabsorbed into Dickens’s mature sensibility. The essays in Part III focus upon reading and writing as particularly significant aspects of childhood experience; from Dickens’s childhood reading of tales of adventure, they move to discussion of the child readers in his novels and finally to a consideration of his own early writings alongside those that his children contributed to the Gad’s Hill Gazette. The collection therefore builds a picture of the remembered experiences of childhood being realised anew, both by Dickens and through his inspiring example, in the imaginative creations that they came to inform. While the protagonist of David Copperfield-that 'favourite child' among Dickens’s novels-comes to think of his childhood self as something which he 'left behind upon the road of life', for Dickens himself, leafing continually through his own back pages, there can be no putting away of childish things.
Charles Dickens and the Victorian Child
Author: Amberyl MalkovichPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415899087
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
By examining some of Dickens's works that contain the imperfect child, Malkovich considers the construction, romanticization, and socialization of the Victorian child within work read by and for children during the Victorian Era, contending that the Victorian child can still be found in popular literatures read by children contemporarily.
The Children of Dickens
Author: Samuel McChord CrothersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Retellings of portions of books by Charles Dickens, featuring such memorable characters as Mr. Micawber, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and the Jellyby family. Includes background information on the novels.
Dickens and the Grown-Up Child
Author: M. AndrewsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230377998
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The child who stops growing, infantile senility, the 'old-fashioned' child, child-wives and child-mothers, the rejuvenated adult - Dickens's writings parade before us a gallery of bizarre hybrids. Dickens and the Grown-up Child focuses on the complicated and unresolved relationship between childhood and adulthood in Dickens's fictional and non-fictional work. In challenging the familiar view that the source of such anomalies lies in Dickens's own childhood experiences, Malcolm Andrews explores the extent to which Dickens was heir to an older cultural debate about primitivism and progressivism, a debate which Dickens adapted to his own preoccupations with the tensions between childhood and maturity. In examining these issues, Malcolm Andrews concentrates on the fiction of Dickens's middle years, particularly David Copperfield, and on some of the journalistic essays.