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Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture - Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture K. Boehm 1st ed. 2013 edition
Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture - Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
K. Boehm
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.
236 pages, X, 236 p.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9781349472680 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 236 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 317 g |
| Language | English |