What Maisie Knew: Nineteenth Century Selfhood in the Mind of the Child
(2018)
Journal Article
Laing, R. (2018). What Maisie Knew: Nineteenth Century Selfhood in the Mind of the Child. The Henry James Review, 39(1), 96-109. https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2018.0006
Henry James’s What Maisie Knew represents the child Maisie’s mind as a repository for adult selfhood in the post-Darwin era. Literary and scientific studies of childhood alike endeavoured to access the innocent knowledge of the child-mind in the late... Read More about What Maisie Knew: Nineteenth Century Selfhood in the Mind of the Child.