Redemption and the imagination of childhood: Dickens’s representation of children in A Christmas Carol
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| Field | Value | |
| Title | Redemption and the imagination of childhood: Dickens’s representation of children in A Christmas Carol Verlossing en die verbeelding van die kinderjare: Dickens se voorstelling van kinders in A Christmas Carol | |
| Creator | Robinson, David E. | |
| Description | This article considers the representation of children in Dickens’s most famous Christmas book. Central to the article is a consideration of historical circumstances in which the book was written, as well as Dickens’s own childhood, and the possibility of redemption through the force of the imagination from the negative consequences of social circumstances and personal choices. The changing conception of the Victorian child, from a conception of sinfulness to that of innocence, provides historical and theoretical positioning of the literary work. The role of childhood memory and its influence on Dickens’s work is presented. The work of Edmund Wilson and the children’s literary scholar Adrienne Gavin is included in this consideration of the short novel. Hierdie artikel oorweeg die uitbeelding van kinders in Dickens se bekendste Kersboek. Sentraal in hierdie staan die oorweging van die historiese omstandighede waarin hierdie boek geskryf is, asook Dickens se eie kinderjare en die moontlikheid van verlossing, deur die mag van die verbeelding, uit die negatiewe gevolge van sosiale omstandighede en persoonlike keuses. Die veranderende opvatting van die Victoriaanse kind, van die idee dat kinders van nature sondig is tot die idee dat hulle suiwer en onskuldig is, plaas hierdie literêre werk histories en teoreties. Die rol van Dickens se herinneringe aan sy kinderdae en die invloed daarvan op sy werk word bespreek. Die werk van Edmund Wilson en die kenner van kinderliteratuur, Adrienne Gavin, word ingesluit in hierdie oorweging van die kort roman. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2016-11-10 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v37i1.1307 | |
| Source | Literator; Vol 37, No 1 (2016); 8 pages Literator; Vol 37, No 1 (2016); 8 pages 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
| Language | eng | |
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