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The forbidden experiment : the story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron / Roger Shattuck.

Title
The forbidden experiment : the story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron / Roger Shattuck.
Author
Shattuck, Roger
Publication
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c1980.

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Description
ix, 220 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
An account of the public life of a young boy who appeared in a French village in 1800 after living as a wild animal for most of his eleven or twelve years and of the attempts of a doctor to bring him to a civilized state.
Subject
  • Wild Boy of Aveyron
  • Wild Boy of Aveyron
  • Feral children > Aveyron > Biography
  • Wolfskinderen
  • Enfants sauvages > Biographies
  • Developmental Disabilities > history
  • Deafness > history
  • Education, Special > history
  • Social Isolation > history
  • Socialization > history
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Prisoner without a crime -- The talk of Europe -- Markings on the tabula rasa -- Man-plant or moral man? -- Wildness, greatness, and desire -- Appendices.
ISBN
  • 0374157553 :
  • 9780374157555
LCCN
^^^80010421^
OCLC
  • 5992585
  • SCSB-10402517
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library