The Mind of the Child. Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840-1900

Author	Shuttleworth, Sally
Year	2010
Publisher	Oxford: OUP
Number of pages	512
ISBN	9780199582563
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Abstract

Publisher's Note (2012): In the 1840s novelists such as Bronte and Dickens began to explore the inner world of the child. Simultaneously the first psychiatric studies of childhood were appearing. Moving between literature and science, Sally Shuttleworth explores issues such as childhood fears, imaginary lands, sexuality, and the relation of the child to animal life.