Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood

Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture - Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

2013

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Publisher's 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781137362490
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 2013
DEWEY: 823.8
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: x, 236
Weight: 426g
Height: 223mm
Width: 138mm
Spine width: 20mm