Figurations of interspecies harmony: Feral children fiction and non-fiction originally written in English, from 1894 onwards

Dataset v.1.0 for the research project:"Figurations of interspecies harmony in literature, film and other cultural texts of the English-speaking sphere, from the mid-19th to the 21st centuries", funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (grant no. UMO-2020/38/E/HS2/00130).Dataset consists of:a README.txt file with data description;a data_feral_children_fi_and_non_fi_in_English_from_1894.ods file with research data. Research data is a table with list of selected fiction and non-fiction books and short stories featuring feral children protagonists (understood as raised by or among nonhumans). All of the texts taken into consideration were written originally in English from the 1894 onwards.The table includes both fiction and non-fiction books.It excludes books and short stories that feature feral children only as incidental characters.The list is NOT exhaustive.