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Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Home Truths for Home Peace, Or, "muddle" Defeated
Author: Home truths for home peace, or, 'Nuddle' defeated [by] M.B.H.
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Author: M B. HAfter the wedding, by the author of 'Home truths for home peace'.
Author: M B. HDickens and the Imagined Child
Author: Peter MerchantPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317151216
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In Dickens and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens’s imagination and reflect on the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic. Part I of the collection examines the Dickensian child as both characteristic type and particular example, proposing a typology of the Dickensian child that is followed by discussions of specific children in Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House. Part II focuses on the relationship between childhood and memory, by examining the various ways in which the child’s-eye view was reabsorbed into Dickens’s mature sensibility. The essays in Part III focus upon reading and writing as particularly significant aspects of childhood experience; from Dickens’s childhood reading of tales of adventure, they move to discussion of the child readers in his novels and finally to a consideration of his own early writings alongside those that his children contributed to the Gad’s Hill Gazette. The collection therefore builds a picture of the remembered experiences of childhood being realised anew, both by Dickens and through his inspiring example, in the imaginative creations that they came to inform. While the protagonist of David Copperfield-that 'favourite child' among Dickens’s novels-comes to think of his childhood self as something which he 'left behind upon the road of life', for Dickens himself, leafing continually through his own back pages, there can be no putting away of childish things.
Nineteenth-Century Interiors
Author: Clive EdwardsPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000961362
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
This volume of primary source materials documents the nature of the home and the theories and discussions around the concept. It examines the class divisions that become evident with the ostentatious lifestyles of political and society hostesses at the peak, whilst middle-class housing often in suburbia, seemed to have created a separation of home and work, arguably suggesting men and women lived in separate spheres. Working-class interiors, often seen the eyes of middle-class observers, were at the bottom of the hierarchy and often reflected concerns of social inequality and misery. The documents also address the process of purchasing and decorating a home, advice on decoration and home management, the nature of taste and comfort, and the symbolic roles of the home as an anchor in society. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of art history.
Time, Domesticity and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: M. DamkjærPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137542888
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This innovative study shows that nineteenth-century texts gave domesticity not just a spatial but also a temporal dimension. Novels by Dickens and Gaskell, as well as periodicals, cookery books and albums, all showed domesticity as a process. Damkjær argues that texts' material form had a profound influence on their representation of domestic time.
After the Wedding
Author: WeddingPublisher:
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Inside the Victorian Home
Author: Judith FlandersPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393052091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
A rich selection from diaries, letters, advice books, magazines, and paintings creates a rooms-by-room portrait of Victorian life--from childbirth in the master bedroom to separate gender domains in the drawing room and parlor.
Dickens and the Bible
Author: Jennifer GribblePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000289583
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
At a time when biblical authority was under challenge from the Higher Criticism and evolutionary science, ‘what providence meant’ was the most keenly contested of questions. This book takes up the controversial subject of Dickens and religion, and offers a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary area of religion and literature. In a close study of major novels, it argues that networks of biblical allusion reveal the Judeo-Christian grand narrative as key to his development as a writer, and as the ontological ground on which he stands to appeal to ‘the conscience of a Christian people’. Engaging the biblical narrative in dialogue with other contemporary narratives that concern themselves with origins, destinations, and hermeneutic decipherments, the inimitable Dickens affirms the Bible’s still-active role in popular culture. The providential thinking of two twentieth-century theorists, Bakhtin and Ricoeur, sheds light on an exploration of Dickens’s narrative theology.