Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood

Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Theory
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Author: K. Boehm ISBN: 9781137362506
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK Publication: September 24, 2013
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: K. Boehm
ISBN: 9781137362506
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication: September 24, 2013
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

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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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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