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- Title
Time In-Between: Intratemporality and Coming of Age in Dickens and Nesbit.
- Authors
Zimmerman, Virginia
- Abstract
This essay examines the causal relationship between coming of age and intratemporality—the experience of multiple times conflated as past, present, and future commingle. It examines Ebenezer Scrooge's reformation, read as a belated coming of age, in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843) and the more typical coming of age of assorted children in two of E. Nesbit's time-slip novels, The Story of the Amulet (1906) and The House of Arden (1908). Both authors correlate personal growth with the experience of time-slip and the conflation of multiple times within the self. Indeed, as these characters visit other times, journeys that contest the notion of the present as apart from past and future, they come to embody intratemporality.
- Subjects
COMING of age; DICKENS, Charles, 1812-1870; CHRISTMAS Carol, A (Book : Dickens); MATURATION (Psychology); AMULETS
- Publication
Victorian Studies, 2023, Vol 65, Issue 3, p478
- ISSN
0042-5222
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/vic.00013