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04219aam a2200541 i 4500 001 D4F9D8E4EAE411E387729F9EDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140603010131 008 131017s2013 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013039945 020 $a 1137362499 (hardback) 020 $a 9781137362490 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)861073102 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CDX $d IUL $d NLM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR4592.M43 $b B64 2013 060 00 $a 2014 B-296 060 10 $a WZ 330 082 00 $a 823/.8 $2 23 084 $a LIT004120 $a LIT004120 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Boehm, Katharina, $d 1984- $e author. 245 10 $a Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood : $b popular medicine, child health and Victorian culture / $c Katharina Boehm, Assistant Professor, University of Regensburg, Germany. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2013. 300 $a x, 236 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- 1. Experimental Subjects: Oliver Twist and the Culture of Mesmerist Experimentation -- 2. Hothouse Children: Dombey and Son and Popular Medical Child Health Manuals -- 3. Dickens, the Social Mission of Victorian Paediatrics and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children -- 4. The Feelings of Childhood: Dickens and the Study of the Child's Mind -- 5. Monstrous Births and Saltationism in Our Mutual Friend and Popular Anatomical Museums -- Conclusion. 520 $a "The first in-depth study of Dickens's creative engagement with popular science and medicine, this book brings to light the scientific entertainments, shows and institutions, and the material and print cultures that revolutionized the ways in which Victorian audiences encountered childhood. It explores Dickens's literary and journalistic writings, his private interests and public causes across the span of his long career. In doing so, it offers a new way of understanding Dickens's preoccupation with childhood by showing how his fascination with novel scientific ideas about childhood and with new practices of scientific inquiry shaped the development of his narrative techniques and aesthetic imagination. Drawing on fascinating archival material, this book reconstructs Dickens's experience of mesmerist trials and hospital ward tours, anatomical museums and popular scientific performances. It provides new readings of some of Dickens's most famous works, including Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son and Our Mutual Friend, as well as of lesser-known texts. Dickens's child characters were a source of inspiration to many medical writers, institutions and journalists, and the book also traces how these groups appropriated Dickensian characters and motifs in order to debate and bolster the authority of new scientific ideas. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Dickens, Charles, $d 1812-1870 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Dickens, Charles, $d 1812-1870 $x Medicine. $x Medicine. 650 0 $a Literature and medicine $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Children in literature. 650 0 $a Children $x Health and hygiene $z Great Britain. 650 0 $a Literature and science $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. $2 bisacsh 600 12 $a Dickens, Charles, $d 1812-1870. $2 [MeSH] 650 12 $a Medicine in Literature $z Great Britain. $2 [MeSH] 650 22 $a Child Health Services $x history $z Great Britain. $2 [MeSH] 650 22 $a Child Welfare $x history $z Great Britain. $2 [MeSH] 650 22 $a Cultural Characteristics $x history $z Great Britain. $2 [MeSH] 650 22 $a History, 19th Century $z Great Britain. $2 [MeSH] 830 0 $a Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017022136.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826092523.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D4F9D8E4EAE411E387729F9EDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search