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 r

The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and crit

The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.

Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of children’s violent, damaging, and tenuously r