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The Mind of the Child - Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840-1900 (Hardcover)
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The Mind of the Child - Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840-1900 (Hardcover)
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What is the difference between a lie and a fantasy, when the
subject is a child? Moving between literary and scientific texts,
Sally Shuttleworth explores a range of fascinating issues that
emerge when the inner world of the child becomes, for the first
time, the explicit focus of literary and medical attention.
Starting in the 1840s, which saw the publication of explorations of
child development by Bronte and Dickens, as well as some of the
first psychiatric studies of childhood, this groundbreaking book
progresses through post-Darwinian considerations of the child's
relations to the animal kingdom, to chart the rise of the Child
Study Movement of the 1890s.
Based on in-depth interdisciplinary research, The Mind of the Child
offers detailed readings of novels by Dickens, Meredith, James,
Hardy and others, as well as the first overview of the early
histories of child psychology and psychiatry. Initial chapters
cover issues such as fears and night terrors, imaginary lands, and
the precocious child, while later ones look at ideas of child
sexuality and adolescence and the relationship between child and
monkey. Experiments on babies, the first baby shows, and domestic
monkey keeping also feature.
Many of our current concerns with reference to childhood are shown
to have their parallels in the Victorian age: from the pressures of
school examinations, or the problems of adolescence, through to the
disturbing issue of child suicide. Childhood, from this period,
took on new importance as holding the key to the adult mind.
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