Title: Savage girls and wild boys :
Authors: Newton, Michael
Date: 2002
Publisher: Faber and Faber,
Physical description: xiv, 284 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: In Savage Girls and Wild Boys, Newton tackles the perennially compelling topic of children raised by animals. He examines the lives of these children, of the adults who rescued them and asks what they can teach us about notions of civilisation.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1 The Child of Nature 1 -- 2 Bodies Without Souls 16 -- 3 Lord Monboddo and the Savage Girl 53 -- 4 Radical Innocence 98 -- 5 The Child of Europe 128 -- 6 The Wolf-Children 182 -- 7 Where Is Tomorrow, Mrs L.? 208.
Subject headings (LCSH): Children and adults.; Feral children--History.; Feral children.