dangerous experiments in the Age of Enlightenment /
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Julia V. Douthwaite.
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Chicago :
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University of Chicago Press,
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2002.
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xiii, 314 p. :
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ill. (some col.) ;
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24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-301) and index.
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Introduction -- 1. Wild Children: establishing the boundaries of nature and science -- 2. The animated statue and the plasticity of mankind -- 3. Compromised idylls: natural man and woman encultured -- 4. Raising the rational child: real-life experiments and alternatives to Rousseau -- 5. Perfectibility in the revolutionary era: Utopian politics and dystopian fictions -- Epilogue: Monstrous imperfection.
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English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
French literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.