Title: The child, the state, and the Victorian novel
Description: "Berry examines the nineteenth-century fascination with victimized children to show how novels and reform writings reorganize ideas of self and society as narratives of childhood distress. Berry shows the ways in which fiction that purports to deal with private life, particularly the domain of the family, nevertheless intervenes in public and social debates.

At the same time she examines medical, legal, charitable, and social-relief writings to show how these documents provide crucial sources in the development of social welfare and modern representations of the family."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: State, The, in literature, Literature and society, History and criticism, Children in literature, Social problems in literature, Characters, English fiction, Social conditions, Children, History, Dickens, charles, 1812-1870, State, the
Places: Great Britain
People: Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Time periods: 19th century