Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood

1. Introduction
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2. Experimental Subjects: Oliver Twist and the Culture of Mesmerist Demonstrations
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3. Hothouse Children: Dombey and Son and Popular Medical Child Health Manuals
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4. Dickens, the Social Mission of Victorian Paediatrics and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children
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5. The Feelings of Childhood: Dickens and the Study of the Child’s Mind
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6. Monstrous Births and Saltationism in Our Mutual Friend and Popular Anatomical Museums
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7. Conclusion
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Avainsanat: Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Fiction, British and Irish Literature, History of Britain and Ireland