03369nam a22004575i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001300153072001600166072002300182072001500205100007800220245015500298250001800453264007900471300003200550336002600582337002600608338003600634347002400670490007500694505039800769520127801167650002702445650003802472650002502510650002702535650003502562650002502597710003402622773002602656776003602682776003602718776003602754830007502790856004602865978-3-031-41382-7DE-He21320251030112029.0cr nn 008mamaa240506s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830314138277 a10.1007/978-3-031-41382-72doi 4aPZ4.2-90 7aDSY2bicssc 7aLIT0090002bisacsh 7aDSY2thema1 aLaing, Roisín.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut14aThe Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Cultureh[electronic resource] :bDevelopment and Selfhood from Darwin to Freud /cby Roisín Laing.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aX, 279 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aPalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture,x2634-65080 aChapter 1-Nineteenth-Century Models of Development: Precocity Before and After Darwin -- Chapter 2-The Child: Non-Precocity in Autobiography -- Chapter 3- Lies and Imagination: Precocity in Children’s Literature -- Chapter 4- The Precocious Child in Victorian Culture: Precocity in Fantasy and in Reality -- Chapter 5- Twentieth-Century Models of Development: Precocity from Darwin to Freud.  aThis 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. 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 Henry James Review. 0aChildren's literature. 0aLiterature, Modernx19th century. 0aEuropean literature.14aChildren's Literature.24aNineteenth-Century Literature.24aEuropean Literature.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303141381008iPrinted edition:z978303141383408iPrinted edition:z9783031413841 0aPalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture,x2634-650840uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41382-7