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Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood :popular medicine, child health and Victorian culture /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood :by Katharina Boehm.
Reminder of title:	popular medicine, child health and Victorian culture /
Author:	Boehm, Katharina,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Children in literature.
Online resource:	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137362506
ISBN:	1137362502 (electronic bk.)

Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood :popular medicine, child health and Victorian culture /
Boehm, Katharina,1984-

Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood :popular medicine, child health and Victorian culture /by Katharina Boehm. - 1 online resource. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Experimental Subjects: "Oliver Twist" and the Culture of Mesmerist Experimentation -- 2. Hothouse Children: "Dombey and Son" and Popular Medical Child Health Manuals -- 3. Dickens, the Social Mission of Victorian Paediatrics and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children -- 4. The Feelings of Childhood: Dickens and the Study of the Child's Mind -- 5. Monstrous Births and Saltationism in "Our Mutual Friend" and Popular Anatomical Museums.

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.

ISBN: 1137362502 (electronic bk.)

Source: 700011Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

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Dickens, Charles,
1812-1870--CharactersSubjects--Topical Terms:

201392
Children in literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR4593

Dewey Class. No.: 823.8

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