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Stevenson’s sick children: A Child’s Garden of Verses and the therapeutic imagination

Archives of disease in childhood, 2021-07, Vol.106 (7), p.725-726 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Stevenson’s sick children: A Child’s Garden of Verses and the therapeutic imagination
  • Author: Remein, Christy DiFrances
  • Subjects: Adventure ; Children ; Children & youth ; Illnesses ; Medical ethics ; Palliative care ; Pediatrics ; Poetry ; Stevenson ; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
  • Is Part Of: Archives of disease in childhood, 2021-07, Vol.106 (7), p.725-726
  • Description: Correspondence to Dr. Christy DiFrances Remein, Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC 20037, USA; cdremein@gwu.edu Growing up in the raw climate of 19th-century Edinburgh, Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894, figure 1) was by his own admission a sickly child. [...]the narrator demonstrates an ability to experience delight through what Ann C. Colley calls “a certain elasticity of perception that is such an integral part of childhood”.7 “The Land of Nod” elaborates on the motif of therapeutic adventuring, presenting a navigation of the child’s psyche through a description of nighttime journeys into a fantastic world. [...]the narrator’s desire for movement ought not to be perceived as unrealistic: I should like to rise and go where the golden apples grow.2 Although from a strictly physical perspective, of course, such a trip sounds impossible, figuratively speaking this child can alter the activity of climbing a nearby tree into an opportunity to traverse geographic boundaries: I held the trunk with both my hands And looked abroad on foreign lands.
  • Publisher: London: BMJ Publishing Group LTD
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0003-9888
    EISSN: 1468-2044
    DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2020-319280
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
    ProQuest Central
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