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Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood - Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture (Hardcover)
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Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood - Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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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.
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