03214oam 2200637I 450 991046299870332120200520144314.00-203-06635-91-299-14106-41-135-07426-710.4324/9780203066355 (CKB)2670000000331277(EBL)1125165(OCoLC)828298652(SSID)ssj0000821661(PQKBManifestationID)12411830(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000821661(PQKBWorkID)10879671(PQKB)10908619(MiAaPQ)EBC1125165(Au-PeEL)EBL1125165(CaPaEBR)ebr10659472(CaONFJC)MIL445356(OCoLC)827947075(EXLCZ)99267000000033127720180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCharles Dickens and the Victorian child romanticizing and socializing the imperfect child /Amberyl MalkovichNew York ;London :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (177 p.)Children's literature and cultureChildren's literature and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-85078-0 0-415-89908-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.CHARLES DICKENS AND THE VICTORIAN CHILD Romanticizing and Socializing the Imperfect Child; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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 ChildChapter 5 Mining the Missing Link: Contemporary Constructions of the Imperfect ChildConclusion: The Perfection of Imperfection-The Consummation of the Misunderstood; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThis book explores the ideas of children and childhood, and the construct of the 'ideal' Victorian child, that developed rapidly over the Victorian era along with literacy and reading material for the emerging mass reading public. Children's Literature was one of the developing areas for publishers and readers alike, yet this did not stop the reading public from bringing home works not expressly intended for children and reading to their family. Within the idealized middle class family circle, authors such as Charles Dickens were read and appreciated by members of all ages. By examining somChildren's Literature and CultureChildren in literatureElectronic books.Children in literature.823/.8Malkovich Amberyl1974-,955726MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462998703321Charles Dickens and the Victorian child2162799UNINA