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Idiocy: A Cultural History |

Patrick McDonagh

Liverpool University Press

A ‘pupil of innocent Nature!’ The wild boy of Aveyron goes to Paris

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Chapters/Headings	Author(s)	Pages	Info
Frontmatter		i-vi
Contents		vii-viii
Preface and acknowledgements		ix-xiv
1 - Introduction: idiocy, culture and human relations		1-23
2 - ‘Stripping our own hearts naked’: William Wordsworth and John Wilson read ‘The Idiot Boy’		24-49
3 - A ‘pupil of innocent Nature!’ The wild boy of Aveyron goes to Paris		50-78
4 - Diminished men: masculinity and idiocy		79-101
5 - Essential women: femininity and idiocy		102-128
6 - Holy fools, witty fools, depraved fools: folly, innocence and sin		129-151
7 - History, society, economy: holy fools and idiots come home in nineteenth-century literature		152-169
8 - Barnaby Rudge, idiocy and paternalism: assisting the ‘poor idiot’		170-191
9 - Innocence, philanthropy and economics: the new ‘asylum’ idiot		192-230
10 - Sensational idiocy		231-256
11 - ‘The sins of the fathers’: idiocy, evolution and degeneration		257-288
12 - Danger and degeneracy: the threat of the urban idiot		289-308
13 - The problem of the feeble-minded: the Royal Commission, eugenics and eternal chaos		309-331
Epilogue		332-337
Bibliography		338-359
Index		360-369
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