Cases of Extreme Social Isolation (Feral or Wolf Children)
Additional sources of information are provided below.
Cases Discussed in Class
Victor
Lucien Malson. Wolf Children and the Problem of Human Nature. New York:
Monthly Review Press, 1972. Includes a translation of the full text of The Wild Boy
of Aveyron, by Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard.
Genie
Susan Curtis et. al. “The Linguistic Development of Genie,” Language, Vol. 50, No.
3, 1974: 528-554.
Victoria Fromkin et. al. “The Development of Language in Genie: a case of
language acquisition beyond the critical point,” Brain and Language, 1, 1974:81-107.
Susan Curtis. A Psycholinguistic Study of Modern-Day “Wild Child.” New York:
Academic Press, 1977.
Russ Rymer. Genie: An Abused Child’s Flight from Silence. New York: Harper
Collins, 1993.
Anna and Isabelle
Kingsley Davis. “Extreme Isolation of a Child,” American Journal of Sociology,
January 1940: 554-565.
Kingsley Davis. “Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation,” American Journal of
Sociology, March 1947: 432-437.
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Other sources:
Charles Maclean. The Wolf Children: fact or fantasy? Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1977.
Michael Newton. Savage Girls and Wild Boys: a history of feral children. London:
Faber and Faber, 2002.
Harlan Lane. The Wild Boy of Aveyron. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 1976.
Jakob Wassermann. Caspur Hauser. London: Penguin, 1992.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. The Lost Prince: the unsolved mystery of Caspur Hauser.
New York: Free Press, 1996.
Adriana S. Benzaquen. Encounters with Wild Children. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s,
2006.
Website
http://www.feralchildren.com/en/index.php