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

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Main Author: Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Child psychology in literature.
Children in literature.
Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Child development > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Child Development > Great Britain.
Adolescent Development > Great Britain.
Adolescent Psychology > history > Great Britain.
Child Psychology > history > Great Britain.
History, 19th Century > Great Britain.
Literature > history > Great Britain.
Table of 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.

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