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The mind of the child : child development in literature, science, and medicine, 1840-1900 / by Sally Shuttleworth.

Author/creator Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952-
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoOxford : Oxford University Press,
Descriptionx, 497 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
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Subject(s)
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [449]-481) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010923442
ISBN9780199582563
ISBN0199582564

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