| Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture 2013 Edition Contributor(s): Boehm, K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349472689 ISBN-13: 9781349472680 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 823.8 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.70 lbs) 236 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |