The wild girl, natural man, and the monster : dangerous experiments in the Age of Enlightenment / 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 (ca...

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Main Author: Douthwaite Viglione, Julia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
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