Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood : Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture Paperback / softback
by K. Boehm
Part of the Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:236 pages, X, 236 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:01/01/2013
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- ISBN:9781349472680
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:236 pages, X, 236 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:01/01/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781349472680