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The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture: Development and Selfhood from Darwin to Freud

by Roisín Laing
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783031413841
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan
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  • Pages: 289
  • Original Price: EUR 119.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 357 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Children's & Young Adult Literature

This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture – canonical literature, children’s fiction, scientific texts, and writing by children – to argue that precocity challenges the idea of progress.

Roisín Laing is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the English Studies Department and the Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies at Durham University, UK. She has published on childhood and nineteenth-century culture in several essay collections and leading journals including the journal of Victorian Culture and The Hendry James Review.

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