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Dickens and the Grown-Up Child

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  • © 1994

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  1. Malcolm Andrews
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Malcolm Andrews
      Pages 1-5

  3. Childhood and Maturity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-8
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    2. The Idea of Childhood: A Genealogy

      • Malcolm Andrews
      Pages 9-26

    3. The Savage, the Child and the Caves of Ignorance

      • Malcolm Andrews
      Pages 27-40

    4. ‘The Birthplace of his Fancy’

      • Malcolm Andrews
      Pages 41-56

    5. ‘Where We Stopped Growing’

      • Malcolm Andrews
      Pages 57-70

  4. The Grown-Up Child

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-72
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    2. Grown-up Children in the Novels

      • Malcolm Andrews
      Pages 73-96

    3. Christmas and Rejuvenation

      • Malcolm Andrews
      Pages 97-111

    4. Dombey and Son: The New-Fashioned Man and the Old-Fashioned Child

      • Malcolm Andrews
      Pages 112-134

    5. David Copperfield — 1: Children and the Childlike

      • Malcolm Andrews
      Pages 135-148

    6. David Copperfield — 2: The Trials of Maturity

      • Malcolm Andrews
      Pages 149-171

    7. Childhood as Counter-Culture

      • Malcolm Andrews
      Pages 172-181

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 183-214
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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.

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MALCOLM ANDREWS

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