The Mind of the Child
Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine 1840-1900
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 October 2013
- ISBN 9780199682171
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages510 pages
- Size 233x156x27 mm
- Weight 772 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
In the 1840s novelists such as Brontë and Dickens began to explore the inner world of the child. Simultaneously the first psychiatric studies of childhood were appearing. Moving between literature and science, Sally Shuttleworth explores issues such as childhood fears, imaginary lands, sexuality, and the relation of the child to animal life.
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What is the difference between a lie and a fantasy, when the subject is a child? Moving between literary and scientific texts, Sally Shuttleworth explores a range of fascinating issues that emerge when the inner world of the child becomes, for the first time, the explicit focus of literary and medical attention. Starting in the 1840s, which saw the publication of explorations of child development by Bronte and Dickens, as well as some of the first psychiatric studies of childhood, this groundbreaking book progresses through post-Darwinian considerations of the child's relations to the animal kingdom, to chart the rise of the Child Study Movement of the 1890s.
Based on in-depth interdisciplinary research, The Mind of the Child offers detailed readings of novels by Dickens, Meredith, James, Hardy and others, as well as the first overview of the early histories of child psychology and psychiatry. Initial chapters cover issues such as fears and night terrors, imaginary lands, and the precocious child, while later ones look at ideas of child sexuality and adolescence and the relationship between child and monkey. Experiments on babies, the first baby shows, and domestic monkey keeping also feature.
Many of our current concerns with reference to childhood are shown to have their parallels in the Victorian age: from the pressures of school examinations, or the problems of adolescence, through to the disturbing issue of child suicide. Childhood, from this period, took on new importance as holding the key to the adult mind.
Review from previous edition pioneering study of Victorian childhood
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part I Early Child Psychiatry and the Literary Imagination
The Emergence of Child Psychiatry
Fears, Phantasms, and Night Terrors
Lies and Imagination
Imaginary Lands
Passion
Part II Systematic Education
The Forcing Apparatus: Dombey and Son
Progress, Pressure, and Precocity
Science, System, and the Sexual Body: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Part III Post-Darwinian Childhood: Sexuality and Animality
Childhood in Post-Darwinian Psychiatry
Childhood, Sexuality, and the Novel
The Science of Child Development
Experiments on Babies
Monkeys and Children
Part IV Childhood at the Fin-de-Siècle
Child Study in the 1890s
Autobiography and the Science of Child Study
Unnatural History: Father and Son
Childhood as Performance: What Maisie Knew
Jude the Obscure and Child Suicide
Conclusion
