Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority by Carolyn Steedman

Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority

Carolyn Steedman

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nonfiction childrens classics history literary
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Strange, deformed, and piercingly beautiful, the child acrobat Mignon sprang onto the public stage in 1795. No child at all, but a figment of Goethe's fiction, Mignon appeared and reappeared in countless forms and guises over the next century. The...

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