He makes full use of original French, German, Dutch, Polish, and Scandinavian sources and explores elements of ethnology, literature, and cultural history in hi

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A historian’s research skills combined with a physician’s diagnostic flair, exploring our timeless fascination with the unusual and downright bizarre people

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Argues that from the late eighteeneth century through the early twentieth, American literary and political texts used the figure of the child to represent U.S.