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What is the difference between a lie and a fantasy, when the subject is a child? Moving between literary and scientific texts, Sally Shuttleworth explores a range of fascinating issues that emerge when the inner world of the child becomes, for the first time, the explicit focus of literary and medical attention. Starting in the 1840s, which saw the publication of explorations of child development by Bront--euml--; and Dickens, as well as some of the first psychiatric studies ofchildhood, this groundbreaking book progresses through post-Darwinian considerations of the child's relations to the a

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