Strange dislocations: childhood and the idea of human interiority, 1780–1930
Auteur :
Steedman, Carolyn
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674839786
Date de publication :
30 juin 1998
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
494 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Strange, deformed, and beautiful, the child acrobat Mignon sprang onto the public stage in 1795. A figment of Goethe’s fiction, he appeared in countless forms and guises over the next century. The meaning of this compelling creature is the focus of Steedman’s account of how 19th-century notions of childhood gave birth to the modern idea of a self.