Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. x, 497 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

1. Child Development > Great Britain
2. Adolescent Development > Great Britain
3. Adolescent Psychology > history > Great Britain
4. Child Psychology > history > Great Britain
5. History, 19th Century > Great Britain
6. Literature > history > Great Britain
7. Child development in literature
8. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
9. Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century
10. Child psychology in literature
11. Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFE 10-6227

Bibliography (note)

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

Author

1. Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952-

Title

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

Imprint

1. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Bibliography

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

ISBN

1. 9780199582563
2. 0199582564

Research call number

1. JFE 10-6227