The mind of the child : child development in literature, science, and medicine, 1840-1900 / by Sally Shuttleworth.

Author/creator Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952-
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Descriptionx, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Electronic LocationInhaltsverzeichnis
Subjects
English literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Child psychology in literature.
Children in literature.
Literature and science--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Literature and medicine--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Child development--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Child Development--Great Britain.
Adolescent Development--Great Britain.
Psychology, Adolescent--history. --Great Britain.
Psychology, Child--history. --Great Britain.
History, 19th Century--Great Britain.
Literature--history. --Great Britain.

Contents The emergence of child psychiatry -- Fears, phantasms, and night terrors -- Lies and imagination -- Imaginary lands -- Passion -- The forcing apparatus : Dombey and son -- Progress, pressure, and precocity -- Science, system, and the sexual body : the ordeal of Richard Feverel -- Childhood in post-Darwinian psychiatry -- Childhood, sexuality, and the novel -- The science of child development -- Experiments on babies -- Monkeys and children -- Child study in the 1890s -- Autobiography and the science of child study -- Unnatural history : father and son -- Childhood as performance : what Maisie knew -- Jude the obscure and child suicide.
Local noteLittle-356538--305131059108-
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [449]-481) and index.
LCCN 2010923442
ISBN9780199582563
ISBN0199582564

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Joyner General Stacks PR468.C5 S58 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold