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Childhood, Literature and Science: Fragile Subjects

Childhood, Literature and Science: Fragile Subjects

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Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

General Sociology

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ISBN10: 0367886081
ISBN13: 9780367886080
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 12 2019
Pages: 244
Language: English

How do we understand, imagine and remember childhood? In what ways do cultural representations and scientific discourses meet in their ways of portraying children?



Childhood, Literature and Science aims to answer these questions by tracing how images of childhood(s) and children in Western modernity are entangled with notions of innocence and fragility, but also with sin and evilness. Indeed, this interdisciplinary collection investigates how different child figures emerge or disappear in imaginative and social representations, in the memories of adult selves, and in expert knowledge. Questions about childhood in Western modernity, culture and science are also addressed through insightful analysis of a variety of materials from the Enlightenment age to the present day - such as fiction, life narratives, visual images, scientific texts and public writings.

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