Big Novels for Little Folks: Dickens Adapted, Abridged, and Excerpted for Young Readers

IF 0.7 1区 文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES DICKENS QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI:10.1353/dqt.2024.a920201
Kirsten Andersen
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Classic novels retold for children have received limited scholarly attention. Often cheaply printed, the interest they arouse is also transient: child readers become adults and either lose interest or move on to the unabridged text. Despite their transience and ephemerality, “classic” novels rewritten for children, especially retellings of Dickens, merit scholarly examination. These retellings appeal to child readers by centring the plots that revolve around child characters, shaping the popular imagination and reception history of these works. Since their initial publication, Dickens’s novels have been adapted, abridged, and anthologized for young readers by editors and publishers with various motives: to profit off Dickens’s fame, to promote literacy, and to support social change. Texts that rewrite “classic” authors like Dickens for young audiences reveal our cultural assumptions and anxieties about literacy.

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小读者的大小说:狄更斯为小读者改编、删节和摘录的作品
摘要:为儿童重述的经典小说受到的学术关注有限。它们通常印刷廉价,引起的兴趣也是短暂的:儿童读者长大成人后,要么失去兴趣,要么转而阅读未经删节的文本。尽管它们短暂易逝,但为儿童改写的 "经典 "小说,尤其是狄更斯的复述作品,值得学术界研究。这些重述作品以儿童角色为中心展开情节,从而吸引了儿童读者,塑造了大众对这些作品的想象和接受史。狄更斯的小说自最初出版以来,编辑和出版商出于各种动机:从狄更斯的名声中获利、促进扫盲、支持社会变革等,对其进行了改编、删节和选编。为青少年读者改写狄更斯等 "经典 "作家作品的文本,揭示了我们对扫盲的文化假设和焦虑。
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