The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster
Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment
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Word Count
80,500 words, Guess
Page Count
322 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewildgirlnaturalm0000dout
- ISBN-100226160564
- ISBN-139780226160566
- Goodreads468253
- Library of Congress Control Number2001008547
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number48754813
- Better World Books9780226160566
- Open LibraryOL9410503M
Classifications
- LCCBD450 .D665 2002
- LCCBD450.D665 2002
Description
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.
First Sentence
Accounts of children found in the wild have long attracted the attention of storytellers and scholars.
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