Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority

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. Read More

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. Read Less

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