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

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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 314 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-301) and index.
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.
Summary	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 civilise the uncivilised.
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Subject	Philosophical anthropology -- France -- History -- 18th century.
	Philosophical anthropology.
	France.
	History.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	French literature.
	Philosophical anthropology -- England -- History -- 18th century.
	England.
	English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	English literature.
Chronological Term	1700 - 1799
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Douthwaite, Julia V. Wild girl, natural man, and the monster. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002 0226160556 (DLC) 2001008547 (OCoLC)48754813
ISBN	9780226160573 (electronic book)
	0226160572 (electronic book)
	1280339551
	9781280339554
	0226160556
	9780226160559
	0226160564
	9780226160566

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

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