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The wild girl, natural man, and the monster [electronic resource] : dangerous experiments in the Age of Enlightenment / Julia V. Douthwaite.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 314 p.) : ill. (some col.)ISBN:
  • 9780226160573 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226160572 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wild girl, natural man, and the monster.DDC classification:
  • 128/.09/033 22
LOC classification:
  • BD450 .D665 2002eb
Other classification:
  • 80.01
Online resources:
Contents:
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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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 Link to resource Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-301) and index.

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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