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.
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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.