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The wild girl, natural man, and the monster : dangerous experiments in the Age of Enlightenment / Julia V. Douthwaite.
LIBRA BD450 .D665 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Douthwaite Viglione, Julia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophical anthropology--France--History--18th century.
- Philosophical anthropology.
- French literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- Philosophical anthropology--England--History--18th century.
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- History.
- England.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 314 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Wild Children: Establishing the Boundaries of Nature and Science2. The Animated Statue and the Plasticity of Mankind3. Compromised Idylls: Natural Man and Woman Encultured4. Raising the Rational Child: Real-Life Experiments and Alternatives to Rousseau5. Perfectibility in the Revolutionary Era: Utopian Politics and Dystopian FictionsEpilogue: Monstrous ImperfectionNotesIndex
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226160556
- 0226160564
- OCLC:
- 48754813
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