“A very Moloch of a baby” : left to be minded in Dickens

• Main Author: Wagner, Tamara Silvia
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Language::English; Humanities::Literature::English; Charles Dickens; Victorian Literature
• Online Access: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/ninecentstud.29.2015-16.0071; https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146488
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Victorian baby, so ubiquitous in nineteenth-century popular culture and so notoriously sentimentalised and commodified, is a curiously little studied topic. It tends to get subsumed in overviews of Victorian child cults and children’s literature. Or we find it reduced to a footnote or a brief as...