Since the early seventeenth century, stories of encounters with strange children in unusual circumstances have been recorded, circulated, and reproduced in Europe and North America not simply as myths, legends, or good tabloid copy but as occurrences deserving serious scrutiny by philosophers and scientists. "Wild children" were seen as privileged objects of knowledge, believed to hold answers to fundamental questions about the boundaries of the human, the character and significance of civilization, and the relation between nature and culture, heredity and environment.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-380) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 155.45/67
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0773529721 9780773576117
- LCCN
- GN372
- LCCN Item number
- B45 2006eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (vi, 393 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00225482 (OCoLC)713186450 (CaOOCEL)432863
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Introduction 10
- PART ONE: Telling Stories of Wild Children 20
- 1 The Accounts 22
- 2 The List, the Class, the Story-Form 49
- PART TWO: Of Savages, Philosophers, and Naturalists 78
- 3 Peter of Hanover and the Wild Girl of Songi 80
- 4 The Debates 113
- PART THREE: Civilizing the Savage, Educating the Child 148
- 5 The Wild Boy of Aveyron 150
- 6 Victor’s Afterlife 192
- PART FOUR: Variations on a Theme: Brutalization, Abuse, and Freedom 220
- 7 Wolf Children 222
- 8 Confinement and Freedom 251
- Epilogue: The Other Child 272
- Appendix: Lists of Wild Children 278
- Acknowledgments 288
- Notes 290
- Bibliography 356
- Index 388
- A 388
- B 388
- C 389
- D 390
- E 390
- F 391
- G 391
- H 392
- I 392
- J 393
- K 393
- L 393
- M 394
- N 395
- O 395
- P 395
- R 396
- S 396
- T 397
- V 398
- W 398
- Y 399
- Z 400
