The Peripheral Child in Nineteenth Century Literature and its Criticism [electronic resource] /
Cocks, N.author.
Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives. This book is concerned with children who are not so easily recognized or remembered, the peripheral or overlooked children to be read in works by Dickens, Brontë, Austen and Rossetti.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: The Return of the Child; 1 The Child and the Return: Persuasion; 2 The Child and the Letter: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; 3 The Child and Transmission: 'Goblin Market'; 4 The Child and the Thing: The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Part II: Ethics, History and Analysis; 5 The Queer Child: No Future and 'Dickens and the Construction of the Child'; 6 The Child and History: Strange Dislocations and The Mind of the Child; Conclusion: Why Analysis?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives. This book is concerned with children who are not so easily recognized or remembered, the peripheral or overlooked children to be read in works by Dickens, Brontë, Austen and Rossetti.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
British literature.
Literature.
Fiction.
Poetry.
Literature-Philosophy.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
British and Irish Literature.
Literature, general.
Fiction.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.