Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood : popular medicine, child health and Victorian culture
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Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood : popular medicine, child health and Victorian culture
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- Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood : popular medicine, child health and Victorian culture
- Title remainder
- popular medicine, child health and Victorian culture
- Statement of responsibility
- Katharina Boehm, Assistant Professor, University of Regensburg, Germany
- Subject
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- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge | Medicine
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General
- Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Children -- Health and hygiene -- Great Britain
- Children in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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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- Provided by publisher
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- DLC
- Dewey number
- 823/.8
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR4592.M43
- LC item number
- B64 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
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