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100	1		_aLaing, Roisín. _eauthor. _4aut _4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut _976430
245	1	4	_aThe Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture _h[electronic resource] : _bDevelopment and Selfhood from Darwin to Freud / _cby Roisín Laing.
250			_a1st ed. 2024.
264		1	_aCham : _bSpringer Nature Switzerland : _bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan, _c2024.
300			_aX, 279 p. _bonline resource.
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490	1		_aPalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture, _x2634-6508
505	0		_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.
520			_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.
650		0	_aChildren's literature.
650		0	_aLiterature, Modern _x19th century.
650		0	_aEuropean literature.
650	1	4	_aChildren's Literature.
650	2	4	_aNineteenth-Century Literature.
650	2	4	_aEuropean Literature.
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773	0		_tSpringer Nature eBook
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783031413810
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783031413834
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783031413841
830		0	_aPalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture, _x2634-6508 _968844
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41382-7
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