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The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster : Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment
The Wild Girl Natural Man and the Monster Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Julia V. Douthwaite
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 Leb...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226160559
ISBN-10: 0226160556
Publication Date: 6/15/2002
Pages: 322
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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