Bringing Up By Hand: Dickens and the Feeding of Children

Victorian social history is combined with psychology to show that Dickens' novels resist rigid schematizations that ignore the multiple determining contexts of the historical milieu. The way that Dickens's personal domestic problems gave a special urgency to his concern with the feeding of...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Mosaic (Winnipeg) 1991-07, Vol.24 (3/4), p.69-88
1. Verfasser:	BURGAN, MARY
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Breastfeeding British & Irish literature Child abandonment Children Children & youth Dickens, Charles Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) English literature Food Foster children History & criticism Infants Literary criticism Mothers Novels Nurses Nutrition Psychology Victorians
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Zusammenfassung:	Victorian social history is combined with psychology to show that Dickens' novels resist rigid schematizations that ignore the multiple determining contexts of the historical milieu. The way that Dickens's personal domestic problems gave a special urgency to his concern with the feeding of children is examined.
ISSN:	0027-1276 1925-5683