Writing, death and absence in 'Tim' by H.O. SturgisCocks, N. (2004) Writing, death and absence in 'Tim' by H.O. Sturgis. Nineteenth Century Contexts, 26 (1). pp. 47-60. ISSN 1477-2663 Full text not archived in this repository. It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. See Guidance on citing. To link to this item DOI: 10.1080/08905490410001683291 Abstract/SummaryThere has been a considerable critical interest in the representation of death in Children's Literature, with an increasingly prevalent move to read it as granting the child the status of object. Thus, for example, Judith Plotz takes it to 'increase [the] presence' of the child. Through a detailed reading of one late C19th school story, I suggest that such readings proceed through a resistance to textuality. This essay offers a reading of death as bound up with the play of the text, deferred, shifting and retrospectively constructed rather than a state of simple, recoverable objecthood.
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