O elogio de Charles Dickens ao Rei Alfred de Wessex (871-899)

• Autor(a) principal: Alarcão, Miguel
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/gaudiumsciendi.2015.2750

Remembered mostly as a novelist, but also a journalist, an essayist, a playwright and a traveller, Dickens (1812-1870) published AChild's History of England in Household Words, a periodical founded by himself (1850), between 1851 and 1853. Derek Hudson describes the book as "(...) an unsparing picture of prolonged wickedness in high places, exposed with lurid detail and much rough sarcasm."(in Dickens s. d., x); and, in fact, AChild'sHistoryprovides some stereotyped judgements and unfortunate statements, which contrast sharply with Dickens's panegyric on Alfred of Wessex (n. 849, r. 871-899). This article will then seek to look into, behind and beyond Dickens's eulogy of "Alfred, the Great", also called and known as "the English Charlemagne" and "England's Darling".