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Hendrick, Harry (2011) Review article : mapping the Victorian child's inner world. History of the Human Sciences, Vol.24 (No.3). pp. 123-131. ISSN 0952-6951

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952695111405276

Abstract

Histories of adult–child relations, however schematically conceptualized some
of them may be, are always welcome. The ongoing so-called ‘crisis’ of childhood –
poverty, mental health, schooling, ‘anti-social’ behaviour, consumerism – referenced by
the continual denigration, and so often exploitation, of children, especially those of the
poor, by the media and others, says much about both the ambivalence of our attitudes
to children and the extent of ageist prejudice against young people. Amid such adultism,
and lacking a political movement, appealing to the past for context and perspective is perhaps
one of the best chances children (and adolescents) have of achieving any kind of justice.
At least historians are now beginning to grasp the importance of ‘age’ as a category of
analysis (Hendrick, in press) – although, on its own, this is no guarantee of a fair hearing. [...]

Item Type:

Book Review

Subjects:

D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman

Divisions:

Faculty of Arts > History > Centre for the History of Medicine
Faculty of Arts > History

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):

Children -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century, Children in literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century, Child psychology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century, Children and adults -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century, Child development -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century, Literature and science -- History -- Great Britain -- 19th century

Journal or Publication Title:

History of the Human Sciences

Publisher:

Sage Publications Ltd.

ISSN:

0952-6951

Book Title:

The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840-1900

Official Date:

July 2011

Dates:

Date	Event
July 2011	Published

Volume:

Vol.24

Number:

No.3

Page Range:

pp. 123-131

Identification Number:

10.1177/0952695111405276

Publication Status:

Published

Description:

Review of Shuttleworth, S. (2010). The mind of the child : child development in literature, science, and medicine, 1840-1900. Oxford : Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-958256-3

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