Encounters with Wild Children: Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature 9780773576117
Since the early seventeenth century, stories of encounters with strange children in unusual circumstances have been reco
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Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: Telling Stories of Wild Children
1 The Accounts
2 The List, the Class, the Story-Form
PART TWO: Of Savages, Philosophers, and Naturalists
3 Peter of Hanover and the Wild Girl of Songi
4 The Debates
PART THREE: Civilizing the Savage, Educating the Child
5 The Wild Boy of Aveyron
6 Victor’s Afterlife
PART FOUR: Variations on a Theme: Brutalization, Abuse, and Freedom
7 Wolf Children
8 Confinement and Freedom
Epilogue: The Other Child
Appendix: Lists of Wild Children
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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