Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture
Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture
Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture
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London: Palgrave Macmillan
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Contents
This book takes a fresh look at childhood in Dickens' works and in Victorian science and culture more generally. It offers a new way of understanding Dickens' interest in childhood by showing how his fascination with new scientific ideas about childhood and practices of scientific inquiry shaped his narrative techniques and aesthetic imagination.
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Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture
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TN_cdi_palgrave_books_700011
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_palgrave_books_700011
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ISBN
9781137362506,1137362502,9781137362490,1137362499,1349472689,9781349472680
DOI
10.1057/9781137362506
