PROBLEMS OF CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION IN CHARLES DICKENS WORKS “LITTLE DORRIT”

Abstract

English literature is therefore not so much insular as detached from the continental European tradition. It is strong in all the conventional categories of the bookseller’s list in poetry, a genre notoriously resistant to adequate translation and therefore difficult to compare with the poetry of other literatures, it is peculiarly rich as to merit inclusion in the front rank. English literature’s humor has been found as hard to convey to foreigners as poetry, if not more so a fact at any rate permitting bestowal of the label. English literature’s remarkable body of travel writings constitutes another counterthrust to the charge of insularity; in autobiography, biography, and historical writing. English literature compares with the best of any culture; and children’s literature, fantasy, essays, and journals, which tend to be considered minor genres, are all fields of exceptional achievement as regards English literature.