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  • Creator is exactly "Douthwaite, Julia V. "

The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment

Explores Enlightenment optimism about the perfectibility of mankind by looking at efforts to educate and "civilize" children. Chapters consider reactions to so-called "wild children"; utopian pedagogical schemes (including efforts to apply…