Childhood, Literature and Science

Jutta Ahlbeck is a sociologist and Senior Researcher at the Department of Culture, History and Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland Päivi Lappalainen is Professor of Finnish Literature at the University of Turku, Finland Kati Launis is Adjunct Professor of Finnish Literature at the University of Turku, Finland Kirsi Tuohela is Adjunct Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku, Finland

INTRODUCTION: Child Figures as Fragile Subjects



Jutta Ahlbeck, Päivi Lappalainen, Kati Launis and Kirsi Tuohela



PART I: The Ideal and Subversive Child



Päivi Lappalainen: Child Figures in Läsning för barn by Zacharias Topelius



Maria Laakso: The Naughty Child in the Early Twentieth Century: Subversive Child Figures and Humor in Jalmari Finne’s Children’s Literature



Jenniliisa Salminen: Child Adults in Soviet Children’s Literature – Lazar Lagin’s The Old Man Hottabych



PART II: The "Normal" Child



Kati Launis: The Birth of the Modern Child in Finnish Literary Realism



Karin Zetterqvist Nelson: The Changing Construction of the Child Figure in Literature on Child Psychotherapy in Sweden 1945–1975



Shaul Bar-Haim: The Child's "Position": The Concept of Childhood in Interwar Psychoanalysis



PART III: The Sick and Disabled Child



Maria Nikolajeva: Visible, Audible and Sentient: Cognitive-Affective Engagement with Disability in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction



Leticia Fernández-Fontecha: Little Patients: Photography and the Configuration of the Sick Child in Victorian Britain



Karen Lowton: The End of the ‘Experiment’: Positioning Children with Severe Liver Disease as Potential Survivors of Pioneering Liver Transplantation



Sarah Hardstaff: "With special obligations": Constructions of Young Adulthood and Caregiving in The Road to Memphis and Seventeen Against the Dealer



PART IV: The Evil and Victimised Child



Eleanor F W Betts: Victim, Monster, Child or Murderer? Representations of Children Who Killed in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers



Jutta Ahlbeck: The Nervous Child and the Disease of Modernity



Ewa Maciejewska-Mroczek & Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz: Between Monster Child and Innocent Baby: Mana