Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture (2013) (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2013
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- ISBN-13:
- 9781137362506
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781137362490
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 02/13/21
- Copyrighted By:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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