The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture
Development and Selfhood from Darwin to Freud
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture;
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Product details:
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication 8 May 2025
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783031413841
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages279 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations X, 279 p. 693
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Short description:
This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture ? canonical literature, children?s fiction, scientific texts, and writing by children ? to argue that precocity challenges the idea of progress. It considers how practitioners of literature and science from Wordsworth to Freud represented human development, and the way in which Darwin?s ?non-progressive model of evolution? troubled the existing model of progression by stages (from childhood inexperience to adult maturity and understanding). Roisín Laing argues that the precocious child undermines the equation of growth with progress, and thereby facilitates other ways of imagining both individual and species development. The idea represented by the precocious child in Victorian culture ? that the adult is not necessarily an improvement on the child, the human not necessarily an improvement on the ape ? still troubles us today.
Long description:
This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture ? canonical literature, children?s fiction, scientific texts, and writing by children ? to argue that precocity challenges the idea of progress. It considers how practitioners of literature and science from Wordsworth to Freud represented human development, and the way in which Darwin?s ?non-progressive model of evolution? troubled the existing model of progression by stages (from childhood inexperience to adult maturity and understanding). Roisín Laing argues that the precocious child undermines the equation of growth with progress, and thereby facilitates other ways of imagining both individual and species development. The idea represented by the precocious child in Victorian culture ? that the adult is not necessarily an improvement on the child, the human not necessarily an improvement on the ape ? still troubles us today.
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Table of Contents:
Chapter 1-Nineteenth-Century Models of Development: Precocity Before and After Darwin.- Chapter 2-The Child: Non-Precocity in Autobiography.- Chapter 3- Lies and Imagination: Precocity in Children?s Literature.- Chapter 4- The Precocious Child in Victorian Culture: Precocity in Fantasy and in Reality.- Chapter 5- Twentieth-Century Models of Development: Precocity from Darwin to Freud.
