LEADER 02799oam 2200493 450 001 9910786272103321 005 20190911100039.0 010 $a1-135-07425-9 010 $a0-203-06635-9 010 $a1-299-14106-4 010 $a1-135-07426-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203066355 035 $a(OCoLC)827947075 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL8PRF 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000331277 100 $a20120828d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCharles Dickens and the Victorian child $eromanticizing and socializing the imperfect child /$fAmberyl Malkovich 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 160 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aChildren's literature and culture 225 0$aChildren's literature and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-85078-0 311 $a0-415-89908-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCHARLES 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 Child 327 $aChapter 5 Mining the Missing Link: Contemporary Constructions of the Imperfect ChildConclusion: The Perfection of Imperfection-The Consummation of the Misunderstood; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThis book explores the ideas of children and childhood, and the construct of the 'ideal' Victorian child, that developed rapidly over the Victorian era along with literacy and reading material for the emerging mass reading public. Children's Literature was one of the developing areas for publishers and readers alike, yet this did not stop the reading public from bringing home works not expressly intended for children and reading to their family. Within the idealized middle class family circle, authors such as Charles Dickens were read and appreciated by members of all ages. By examining som 410 0$aChildren's literature and culture. 606 $aChildren in literature 615 0$aChildren in literature. 676 $a823/.8 700 $aMalkovich$b Amberyl$f1974-,$01541012 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786272103321 996 $aCharles Dickens and the Victorian child$93792940 997 $aUNINA