Dickens and the Children of Empire

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