| 书目名称 | The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture |
| 副标题 | Development and Sel |
| 编辑 | Roisín Laing |
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| 概述 | 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 pr |
| 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
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| 描述 | 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. It considers how practitioners of literature and science from Wordsworth to Freud represented human development, and the way in which Darwin’s “non-progressive model of evolution” troubled the existing model of progression by stages (from childhood inexperience to adult maturity and understanding). Roisín Laing argues that the precocious child undermines the equation of growth with progress, and thereby facilitates other ways of imagining both individual and species development. The idea represented by the precocious child in Victorian culture – that the adult is not necessarily an improvement on the child, the human not necessarily an improvement on the ape – still troubles us today.. . |
| 出版日期 | Book 2024 |
| 关键词 | Literature and Childhood; Charles Darwin; William Wordsworth; Victorian Literature; Literature and Cultu |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41382-7 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-41384-1 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-41382-7Series ISSN 2634-6494 Series E-ISSN 2634-6508 |
| issn_series | 2634-6494 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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