The child in the fog : rethinking childhood in bleak house and the mill on the floss.

• Main Author: Thiong, Lionel J.W.
• Other Authors: Tamara Silvia Wagner
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48887
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The prevalence of fog is highly characteristic of the Victorian era. Other than being redolent of pollution by the Industrial Revolution, fog connotes obscurity and darkness. More specifically, it metaphorically gestures towards deeper meaning behind physical representations, such as those of childh...