Charles Dickens and the sciences of ...
Boehm, Katharina, (1984-)

 

  • Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood :popular medicine, child health and Victorian culture /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 823.8
    書名/作者: Charles Dickens and the sciences of childhood : : popular medicine, child health and Victorian culture // by Katharina Boehm.
    作者: Boehm, Katharina,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource.
    標題: Children in literature.
    標題: Science in literature.
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
    標題: Science.
    ISBN: 1137362502 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9781137362506 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: 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.
    摘要、提要註: 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.
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137362506
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