Overview
- Extends an area of emergent interest in Victorian childhood studies— precocity
- Draws on a range of Victorian literary genres, from children’s literature to evolutionary theory
- Locates the origin of present-day attitudes towards precocious children in Victorian debates about progress
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture (PNWC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture
Book Subtitle: Development and Selfhood from Darwin to Freud
Authors: Roisín Laing
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41382-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41381-0Published: 07 May 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41384-1Due: 07 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41382-7Published: 06 May 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 279
Topics: Children's Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, European Literature