The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster
Subtitle: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780226160566
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European history: from c 1900 -; History of specific subjects; Social & cultural anthropology; Western philosophy; Literary Criticism; Philosophy; French; History: World; Europe; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; European - French; History & Surveys - 17th/18th Century; Literary Criticism & Collections / French; 18th century; England; France; French literature; History; History and criticism; Philosophical anthropology
First sentence: Accounts of children found in the wild have long attracted the attention of storytellers and scholars.