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T1 Childhood through Dickens’ eyes: an analysis of Oliver Twist and Hard Times
A1 Tovar Hernando, Alicia
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Victorian Era
K1 Childhood
K1 Charles Dickens
K1 Oliver Twist
K1 Hard Times
K1 Época victoriana
K1 Infancia
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB This research analyzes childhood in the Victorian Era and its representations intwo of Charles Dickens’ novels: Oliver Twist and Hard Times. The aim is to determine howDickens depicts vulnerable children whose childhood is taken away due to desolate infantexperiences such as child labour. These novels put on perspective Victorian childhood interms of suffering and hard living conditions. Dickens creates different characters in thesenovels that portray children and their desolate infant experiences, which cause them, as aresult, an early ageing. The representation of childhood in the previous literary tradition hasbeen taken into account as well as the historical context of the Victorian Era. Finally, thisresearch analyzes how Dickens incorporates children as important characters in his novelsand through them, he denounces the exploitation and mistreatment that many childrensuffered.
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/51226
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/51226
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 17-jul-2024