Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children
Wild or feral children have fascinated us down the centuries, and continue to do so today. In a haunting and hugely readable study, Michael Newton deftly investigates a number of infamous cases. He looks at Peter the Wild Boy, who gripped the attention of Swift and Defoe, and at Victor of Aveyron...
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Wild or feral children have fascinated us down the centuries, and continue to do so today. In a haunting and hugely readable study, Michael Newton deftly investigates a number of infamous cases. He looks at Peter the Wild Boy, who gripped the attention of Swift and Defoe, and at Victor of Aveyron who roamed the forests of revolutionary France. He tells the story of a savage girl lost on the streets of Paris; of two children brought up by wolves in the jungles of India; of a boy brought up among monkeys in Uganda; and in Moscow, of a child found living with a pack of wild dogs.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312423353 (0312423357)
ASIN: 312423357
Publish date: March 1st 2004
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 312
Edition language: English
The most dramatic point of the book is its cover - oh, and its lack of too many pages.
On to Hayes in Rome---Not sure quite what the goal was as this read wavered and had little overall conclusion but some was interesting and yet more makes me embarrassed for humankind.
This book is ostensibly about feral children throughout the ages. In reality, Newton is so enthralled with the philosophical and psychological possibilities of the *idea* of humans raised outside of society that he only talks about four children. Even when he is supposedly telling these disenfranc...
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