Catherine Waters: 2 books
by Peter Merchant, Catherine Waters
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
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...
Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words
The Social Life of Goods
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In 1850, Charles Dickens founded Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain an ever-widening middle-class readership. Published in the decade following the Great Exhibition of 1851, the journal appeared at a key moment in the emergence of commodity culture in Victorian...