Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture

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.

Author: K. Boehm
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/27/2013
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781137362490

About the Author
Katharina Boehm is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Regensburg University, Germany, and Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the English Department of Rutgers University. She is the editor of Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture ( 2012) and co-editor of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging in Nineteenth-Century Culture (2013). Her work has appeared in Victorian Review, Journal of Victorian Culture and Studies in the Novel.