Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture
"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.
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This book takes a fresh look at childhood in Dickens' works and in Victorian science and culture more generally. It offers a new way of understanding Dickens' interest in childhood by showing how his fascination with new scientific ideas about childhood and practices of scientific inquiry shaped his narrative techniques and aesthetic imagination.
