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Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood

Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture
By:K. Boehm
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137362490
eText ISBN:9781137362506
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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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.