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Winner of the British Society for Literature and Science Prize for the best book in the field of literature and science published in 2010
The Mind of the Child
Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840-1900
Sally Shuttleworth
512 pages
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17 black-and-white halftones
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234x156mm
978-0-19-958256-3
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Hardback
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08 July 2010
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- Groundbreaking study of Victorian childhood which draws extensively on literary and medical texts
- First overview of the beginnings of child psychology and psychiatry
- Shows that many of our current concerns surrounding childhood had their origins in the nineteenth century
What is the difference between a lie and a fantasy, when the subject is a child? Moving between literary and scientific texts, Sally Shuttleworth explores a range of fascinating issues that emerge when the inner world of the child becomes, for the first time, the explicit focus of literary and medical attention. Starting in the 1840s, which saw the publication of explorations of child development by Brontë and Dickens, as well as some of the first psychiatric studies of childhood, this groundbreaking book progresses through post-Darwinian considerations of the child's relations to the animal kingdom, to chart the
rise of the Child Study Movement of the 1890s.
Based on in-depth interdisciplinary research, The Mind of the Child offers detailed readings of novels by Dickens, Meredith, James, Hardy and others, as well as the first overview of the early histories of child psychology and psychiatry. Initial chapters cover issues such as fears and night terrors, imaginary lands, and the precocious child, while later ones look at ideas of child sexuality and adolescence and the relationship between child and monkey. Experiments on babies, the first baby shows, and domestic monkey keeping also feature.
Many of our current concerns with reference to childhood are shown to have their parallels in the Victorian age: from the pressures of school
examinations, or the problems of adolescence, through to the disturbing issue of child suicide. Childhood, from this period, took on new importance as holding the key to the adult mind.Readership: Students and scholars of Victorian literature, Victorian studies, childhood studies, developmental psychology and the history of science and medicine.
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Sally Shuttleworth, Professor of English Literature, and Head of Humanities Division, University of Oxford
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"A monumental piece of scholarship, impeccably researched and full of illuminating detail." - Gregory Tate, MLR, 106.4, 2011 "In this fascinating volume a highly complex story is deployed with deceptive ease." - Metapsychology online reviews "This extremely readable, enormously wide-ranging work is a welcome addition to the shelves of literature and science scholarship" - Melanie Keene, BSLS "Shuttleworth is masterful... Shuttleworth takes on an impressively wide range of topics in child-study and draws fascinating and often unexpected connections between them... In the end, The Mind of the Child prompts us to rethink our own assumptions about the history of childhood by
revealing that the complexity of nineteenth-century discussions of child development is as layered and rich as is an actual human mind." - Andrea Kaston Tange, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
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List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part I Early Child Psychiatry and the Literary Imagination
1: The Emergence of Child Psychiatry
2: Fears, Phantasms, and Night Terrors
3: Lies and Imagination
4: Imaginary Lands
5: Passion
Part II Systematic Education
6: The Forcing Apparatus: Dombey and Son
7: Progress, Pressure, and Precocity
8: Science, System, and the Sexual Body: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Part III Post-Darwinian Childhood: Sexuality and Animality
9: Childhood in Post-Darwinian Psychiatry
10: Childhood, Sexuality, and the Novel
11: The Science of Child Development
12: Experiments on Babies
13: Monkeys and Children
Part IV Childhood at the Fin-de-Siècle
14: Child Study in the 1890s
15: Autobiography and the Science of Child Study
16: Unnatural History: Father and Son
17: Childhood as Performance: What Maisie Knew
18: Jude the Obscure and Child Suicide
Conclusion
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