Author : M. Andrews
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230377998
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Book Synopsis Dickens and the Grown-Up Child by : M. Andrews
Download or read book Dickens and the Grown-Up Child written by M. Andrews and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-03-31 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.