The Mind of the Child Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine 1840-1900
The Mind of the Child Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine 1840-1900
- ISBN 13:
9780199682171
- ISBN 10:
0199682178
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/01/2013
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
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.