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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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Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1349472689
ISBN13: 9781349472680
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: Jan 1 2013
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
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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