The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture
Development and Selfhood from Darwin to Freud
Roisín Laing
The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture
Development and Selfhood from Darwin to Freud
Roisín Laing
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English
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Description
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.