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

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.