Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment

Name: Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780226160566

ISBN-10: 0226160564

ISBN-13: 9780226160566

Edition: 2002

Authors: Julia V. Douthwaite

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Douthwaite looks at the lives of the most famous 'wild children' of eighteenth century Europe, showing how they open a window onto European ideas about the potential and perfectability of mankind.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Julia V. Douthwaite is professor of French at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Exotic Women: Literary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancien Rï¿½gime France.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Wild Children: Establishing the Boundaries of Nature and Science



The Animated Statue and the Plasticity of Mankind



Compromised Idylls: Natural Man and Woman Encultured



Raising the Rational Child: Real-Life Experiments and Alternatives to Rousseau



Perfectibility in the Revolutionary Era: Utopian Politics and Dystopian Fictions Epilogue: Monstrous Imperfection


Notes


Index