Dickens and the Children of Empire

BILL ASHCROFT Lecturer, University of New South Wales, SydneyMURRAY BAUMGARTEN Founding Director of the Dickens Project and Lecturer at Santa Cruz campus, University of CaliforniaJOHN BOWEN Lecturer in English, Keele UniversityANTHONY CHENNELLS Researcher and AuthorKATE FLINT Reader in English, University of OxfordCATHERINE GALLAGHER Eggers Professor of English Literature, University of California, BerkeleyJAMES R. KINCAID AuthorROBERT E. LOUGY Lecturer, Pennsylvania State UniversityGREENWELL MATSIKA Lecturer, University of the North in South Africa, ZimbabweLILLIAN NAYDER Associate Professor of English, Bates College, Lewiston, MaineCATHERINE ROBSON Assistant Professor of English, University of California, DavisGRAHAME SMITH Professor of English Studies, University of StirlingMALVERN VAN WYK SMITH Professor of English, Rhodes University, South Africa

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; W.S.Jacobson Spirit and the Allegorical Child: Little Nell's Mortal Aesthetic; J.Bowen Dickens and the Construction of the Child; J.Kincaid Suppressing Narratives: Childhood ad Empire in The Uncommercial Traveller and Great Expectations; G.Smith The Imperial Child: Bella, Our Mutual Friend , and the Victorian Picturesque; M.Baumgarten Dickens and Gold Rush Fever: Colonial Contagion in Household Words; L.Nayder Floating Signifiers of Britishness in the Novels of the Anti-Slave-Trade Squadron; C.Gallagher Dickens and the Native American; K.Flint Nationalism and Violence: America in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit; R.E.Lougy Girls Underground, Boys Overseas: Some Graveyard Vignettes; C.Robson What the Waves were Always Saying: Dombey and Son and Textual Ripples on an African Shore; M.V.W.Smith Savages and Settlers in Dickens: Reading Multiple Centres; A.Chennells Dickens in Africa: Africanizing Hard Times; G.Matsika Primitive and Wingless: The Colonial Subject as Child; B.Ashcroft Index

'In their many and varied ways, the articles in Dickens and the Children of Empire interrogate modern constructions of childhood and empire, as espoused or subverted in works by writers such as Dickens, and examine the relationship between images of infantilism and imperialism. All of the articles in this diverse and imaginative collection will prove an invaluable resource for any student, researcher, or lecturer interested in Dickens, imperialism, and images of childhood...' - Jonathan Taylor, Loughborough University, MLR