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Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 9
1. Introduction......Page 12
2. Spirit and the Allegorical Child: Little Nell’s Mortal Aesthetic......Page 24
3. Dickens and the Construction of the Child......Page 40
4. Suppressing Narratives: Childhood and Empire in The Uncommercial Traveller and Great Expectations......Page 54
5. The Imperial Child: Bella, Our Mutual Friend, and the Victorian Picturesque......Page 65
6. Dickens and ‘Gold Rush Fever’:Colonial Contagion in Household Words......Page 78
7. Floating Signifiers of Britishness in the Novels of the Anti-Slave-Trade Squadron......Page 89
8. Dickens and the Native American......Page 105
9. Nationalism and Violence: America in Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit......Page 116
10. Girls Underground, Boys Overseas: Some Graveyard Vignettes......Page 127
11. ‘What the waves were always saying’: Dombey and Son and Textual Ripples on an African Shore......Page 139
12. Savages and Settlers in Dickens: Reading Multiple Centres......Page 164
13. Dickens in Africa: ‘Africanizing’ Hard Times......Page 184
14. Primitive and Wingless: the Colonial Subject as Child......Page 195
Index......Page 214