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Languages : en
Pages : 354
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The Surprising Savage Girl, who was Caught Wild in the Woods of Champagne. Translated from the French
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Languages : en
Pages : 354
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An Account of a Most Surprising Savage Girl
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Languages : en
Pages : 38
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The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster
Author: Julia V. DouthwaitePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226160572
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This study 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 perfectibility of mankind. Julia V. Douthwaite recounts reports of feral children such as the wild girl of Champagne (captured in 1731 and baptized as Marie-Angélique Leblanc), offering a fascinating glimpse into beliefs about the difference between man and beast and the means once used to civilize the uncivilized. A variety of educational experiments failed to tame these feral children by the standards of the day. After telling their stories, Douthwaite turns to literature that reflects on similar experiments to perfect human subjects. Her examples range from utopian schemes for progressive childrearing to philosophical tales of animated statues, from revolutionary theories of regenerated men to Gothic tales of scientists run amok. Encompassing thinkers such as Rousseau, Sade, Defoe, and Mary Shelley, Douthwaite shows how the Enlightenment conceived of mankind as an infinitely malleable entity, first with optimism, then with apprehension. Exposing the darker side of eighteenth-century thought, she demonstrates how advances in science gave rise to troubling ethical concerns, as parents, scientists, and politicians tried to perfect mankind with disastrous results.
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Catalogue of the Lauriston Castle Chapbooks
Author: National Library of Scotland. Lauriston Castle Chap-book CollectionPublisher: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
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Category : Chap-books Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
A List of Works Relating to Scotland
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
An Account of a Savage Girl [M. A. Memmie Le Blanc] caught wild in the woods of Champagne. Translated [by - Robertson] from the French of Madame H[ecque]t [i.e. published by her, but written by C. M. de La Condamine?] with a preface [by Lord Monboddo], containing several particulars omitted in the original account
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Author: Marie Angélique MEMMIE LE BLANCPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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