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- W175335295 abstract "This thesis offers a reading of feral in literature and culture from theseventeenth century until the first decades of the twentieth century. Feral children aretaken to be individuals who have grown up, or spent some part of their childhood, in acondition of solitude. It also refers to infants who have been brought up, or temporarilynurtured, by animals.The chief concerns of the thesis are the problems that such raised indefining what it was to be human. In order to elucidate this question, I interpret first-handand fictional accounts of feral within the context of ideas concerning language,political concepts of the state of nature, the idea of the soul, and images of race.The introduction explores some key historical areas of interest in the considerationof the feral child. The first chapter offers readings of the Romulus and Remus story, andanecdotes drawn from the writings of Sir Kenelm Digby and Bernard Connor. The secondchapter examines the case of Peter the Wild Boy as discussed by Daniel Defoe, and thethird chapter considers the Savage Girl of Champagne and her place in the writings ofLord Monboddo. The fourth chapter interprets the case of the Wild Boy of Aveyron inthe context of Enlightenment thought on the origins of language and society. The fifthchapter is concerned with Kaspar Hauser, a boy allegedly brought up the isolation of asingle windowless room. In a coda to this chapter, I suggest links between the romanceelements of the Hauser story (he was considered by many to be an abandoned Prince) andEdgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes (New York: 1914). The sixth chapterexplores the racial meanings of the feral child in Kipling's Jungle Books. The final chapteroffers a conclusion to the ideas raised in the thesis, and suggests that in the period fromthe 1850's to the 1910's the discourses of savagery used to describe the feral child became increasingly applied to ordinary children." @default.
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- W175335295 title "The child of nature: The feral child and the state of nature" @default.
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