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Strange Dislocations

Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority, 1780–1930

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ISBN 9780674839786

Publication Date: 06/30/1998

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254 pages

6 x 9-1/4 inches

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  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: Lost and Found
  • 2. Mignon’s Progress
  • 3. Figures and Physiology
  • 4. Physiological Bodies
  • 5. The World Turned Within
  • 6. Strange Dislocations: Child as Acrobat
  • 7. Children of the Street
  • 8. Children of the Stage
  • 9. Children and the Uncanny
  • 10. The Child-figure and the Melodramatic Imagination
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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