From Alice to Algernon : the evolution of child consciousness in the novel

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Author: Blackford, Holly Virginia
Publisher: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2018]
Subject: Child psychology in literatureChildren in literatureCognition in literatureConsciousness in literatureDevelopmental psychologyFiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etcPsychology in literature
Format: Print
ISBN: 16219039909781621903994

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City Campus	809.393523 BLAC	Available

Description: 296 pages ; 24 cm
Notes: Contents: Introduction. Intellectual history and child study, 1871-1911 -- Huck and Maisie : adaptation and environmental conditioning -- Alice to Anne : looking-glass house and modern method -- Dorian and Peter : childhood and Greek love -- Anne and Stephen : nature and nerve -- Jim and Ántonia : pan and prairie -- A bigger child : race and adolescence -- Charlie and Christopher : disability and modernity -- Coda. Expulsion and intersectionality.Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-288) and index.