The mind of the child: child development in literature, science, and medicine, 1840-1900

Abstract

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-SIECLE 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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