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  1. Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood
    Popular medicine, child health and Victorian culture
    Author: Boehm, Katharina.
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    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... more

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    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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  2. Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood
    popular medicine, child health and Victorian culture
    Author: Boehm, Katharina
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY

    Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Experimental Subjects: Oliver Twist and the Culture of Mesmerist Experimentation 2. Hothouse Children: Dombey and Son and Popular Medical Child Health Manuals... more

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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Experimental Subjects: Oliver Twist and the Culture of Mesmerist Experimentation 2. Hothouse Children: Dombey and Son and Popular Medical Child Health Manuals 3. Dickens, the Social Mission of Victorian Paediatrics and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children 4. The Feelings of Childhood: Dickens and the Study of the Child's Mind 5. Monstrous Births and Saltationism in Our Mutual Friend and Popular Anatomical Museums Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index "The first in-depth study of Dickens's creative engagement with popular science and medicine, this book brings to light the scientific entertainments, shows and institutions, and the material and print cultures that revolutionized the ways in which Victorian audiences encountered childhood. It explores Dickens's literary and journalistic writings, his private interests and public causes across the span of his long career. In doing so, it offers a new way of understanding Dickens's preoccupation with childhood by showing how his fascination with novel scientific ideas about childhood and with new practices of scientific inquiry shaped the development of his narrative techniques and aesthetic imagination. Drawing on fascinating archival material, this book reconstructs Dickens's experience of mesmerist trials and hospital ward tours, anatomical museums and popular scientific performances. It provides new readings of some of Dickens's most famous works, including Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son and Our Mutual Friend, as well as of lesser-known texts. Dickens's child characters were a source of inspiration to many medical writers, institutions and journalists, and the book also traces how these groups appropriated Dickensian characters and motifs in order to debate and bolster the authority of new scientific ideas. "--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781137362506
    RVK Categories: HL 2585
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series: Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
    Subjects: Literature and medicine; Children in literature; Children; Literature and science
    Other subjects: Dickens, Charles 1812-1870; Dickens, Charles 1812-1870
    Scope: Online-Ressource (247 S.), Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record