Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952-

The mind of the child : child development in literature, science, and medicine, 1840-1900 / by Sally Shuttleworth. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. - x, 497 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

9780199582563 0199582564

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English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Child psychology in literature.
Children in literature.
Literature and science--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Literature and medicine--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Child development--History--Great Britain--19th century.

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