Childhood, Literature, and Science: Fragile Subjects

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: Child figures as fragile subjects
	The birth of the modern child
	Child figures in imagination, knowledge and memory
	Presentation of chapters
	References
PART I: The Ideal and Subversive Child
	1. Child figures in Läsning för barn by Zacharias Topelius
		Topelius’ concept of childhood and the ideal child of the nation
		Princes, princesses and ordinary children
		Gendered roles
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	2. The naughty child in the early twentieth century: Subversive child figures and humour in Jalmari Finne’s children’s literature
		Naughty child stories in children’s fiction
		Jalmari Finne’s work in the context of early twentieth-century Finland
		The Kiljunen Family series and subversive humour
		Moral norms of the Kiljunen Family series
		Conclusions
		References
	3. Child adults in Soviet children’s literature: Lazar Lagin’s The Old Man Hottabych
		A Soviet fairy tale
		The perfect child
		The role of the child and the adult in the text – An
involuntary carnival
		The adult as other
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
PART II: The ‘Normal’ Child
	4. The birth of the modern child in Finnish literary realism
		The child as a secondary figure: Children, ideology, narration
		Let the girls fly! From sentimental to psychological realism
		Fictional studies on the mind of the child
		Pedagogical studies of childhood?
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	5. The changing construction of the child figure in literature on child psychotherapy in Sweden 1945–1975
		Introduction
		The origin of Swedish child psychotherapy
		The different worlds of children
		The child in psychotherapy – A relational approach
		The expansion of the welfare state and ego psychology
		Child Psychotherapy – The book
		Inner emotional turmoil
		Concluding discussion
		Notes
		References
	6. The child’s ‘position’: The concept of childhood in interwar psychoanalysis
		Development’ and growth in nineteenth-century society and culture
		Educational and anti-educational psychoanalysis
		The child’s quest for reality
		Klein and the non-chronological perception of childhood
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
PART III: The Sick and Disabled Child
	7. Visible, audible and sentient: Cognitive-affective engagement with disability in contemporary young adult fiction
		Representation
		Empathy
		References
	8. Little patients: Photography and the configuration of the sick child in Victorian Britain
		Introduction
		The emergence of the children’s hospital
		The photographic representation of the sick child
		The visual limits of illness
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	9. The end of the ‘experiment’: Positioning children with severe liver disease as potential survivors of pioneering liver transplantation
		Introduction
		The history of liver transplantation
		Liver transplantation: Experiment or therapy?
		The therapeutic childhood liver transplant programme in the UK
		Media appeals for liver donors
		Preparing and waiting for a donor liver
		The ‘success’ of transplant
		Discussion
		References
	10. ‘With special obligations’: Constructions of young adulthood and caregiving in The Road to Memphis and Seventeen Against the Dealer
		Ways of seeing in The Road to Memphis
		Ways of saying in Seventeen Against the Dealer
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
PART IV: The Evil and Victimised Child
	11. Victim, monster, child or murderer? Representations of children who killed in nineteenth-century newspapers
		The monstrous villain
		The juvenile delinquent
		The normal and abnormal child
		Conclusion
		References
	12. The nervous child and the disease of modernity
		Restlessness in modernity
		‘Children are getting weaker’
		Inherited nervousness
		The school and the overworked child
		The nervous child: The result of failed motherhood
		Conclusions
		References
	13. Between monster child and innocent baby: Managing fear and hope in Polish debates on in vitro fertilization
		Research design
		Fear and the monstrous child
		Hope and the miracle child
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
PART V: The Lost Child
	14. The rise of inner subjectivity: Childhood in early nineteenthcentury Finnish autobiographies
		Introduction: Autobiography, human interiority, and modern childhood
		The child of the Enlightenment
		The childhood of an artist
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	15. ‘A terrible deal for the Western parent’: Neoliberal mothering versus the teenager
		Chua and ‘Chinese’ parenting
		Jake and the lost mother
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	16. Children and childhoods in women’s madness narratives
		Mad protagonists as children
		The children she cannot have
		Children of mad mothers
		Conclusions
		References
Index