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Author:

Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

x, 497 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-481) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0199582564
9780199582563

OCLC:

(OCoLC)500794390

LCCN:

2010923442

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)