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0 Innocence and Ignorance: Concepts of Childhood Reflected in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

Innocence and Ignorance: Concepts of Childhood Reflected in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

Fe Brewer is an English teacher and Lead Mentor in Leicester. She is the co-author of Succeeding as an English Teacher (Bloomsbury 2021) and presents regularly on English subject knowledge and education. In this post, she explores how Dickens’ portrayal of children echoes contemporary changes around the concept of childhood.

8 August 2022 by Fe Brewer
2 Liminality in David Copperfield

Liminality in David Copperfield

In this guest post, Sophie Phelps explores ‘liminal’ Dickensian characters who are not quite children and not quite adults, as she shows with a case study of David Copperfield’s “child-wife” Dora. We think this topic is a fantastic fit for us: questions of characterisation in Dickens’s writing are very dear to the CLiC project. Childhood is … Continue reading “Liminality in David Copperfield”

16 November 2018 by Sophie Phelps

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