Strange Dislocations - Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority, 1780–1930

About the author

Carolyn Steedman is the author of Landscape for a Good Woman and a Reader in the Centre for Social History at the University of Warwick.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Steedman, Steedman Carolyn
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.1998
• EAN: 9780674839786
• ISBN: 978-0-674-83978-6
• Weight: 494 g
• Subjects: Europe, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Miscellaneous items