Savage girls and wild boys
Subtitle: a history of feral children
By: Michael Newton.
Publisher: Faber and Faber; Faber & Faber
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Feral children.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 The Child of Nature 1; title: 2 Bodies Without Souls 16; title: 3 Lord Monboddo and the Savage Girl 53; title: 4 Radical Innocence 98; title: 5 The Child of Europe 128; title: 6 The Wolf-Children 182; title: 7 Where Is Tomorrow, Mrs L.? 208.