Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture
Description
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.
Keywords
Literary CriticismModern19th CenturySemiotics & TheoryFictionEuropeanHistoryEuropeGreat BritainLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative
2013Book
Author(s)Katharina Boehm
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137362490
LanguageEnglish
