Description
Explores Enlightenment optimism about the perfectibility of mankind by looking at efforts to educate and “civilize” children. Chapters consider reactions to so-called “wild children”; utopian pedagogical schemes (including efforts to apply Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile, with disastrous results); and the politics of perfectibility during the French Revolution.
Creator
Douthwaite, Julia V.
Publisher
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002
Contributor
Roberts, Meghan
Language
English
Type
Book