By examining some of Dickens's works that contain the imperfect child, Malkovich considers the construction, romanticization, and socialization of the Victorian child within work read by and for children during the Victorian Era, contending that the Victorian child can still be found in popular literatures read by children contemporarily.
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Introduction 1. Please Sir, I Want Some More: Learning...at Any Cost 2. I believe, I believe!: Fairies, Their World, and Authorial Preservation 3. Belittling and Being Little: Resisting Socially Imposed Physical and Gendered Limitations 4. A Beautiful Decay: Disease, Death and Eternal Longing of the Imperfect Child 5. Mining the Missing Link: Contemporary Constructions of the Imperfect Child Conclusion: The Perfection of Imperfection: The Consummation of the Misunderstood
