Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture

Roisín Laing is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the English Studies Department and the Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies at Durham University, UK. She has published on childhood and nineteenth-century culture in several essay collections and leading journals including the journal of Victorian Culture and The Hendry James Review.

• Chapter 1-Nineteenth-Century Models of Development: Precocity Before and After Darwin.- Chapter 2-The Child: Non-Precocity in Autobiography.- Chapter 3- Lies and Imagination: Precocity in Children’s Literature.- Chapter 4- The Precocious Child in Victorian Culture: Precocity in Fantasy and in Reality.- Chapter 5- Twentieth-Century Models of Development: Precocity from Darwin to Freud.