Rereading Orphanhood : : Texts, Inheritance, Kin / / Diane Warren, Laura Peters.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Warren, Diane,; Peters, Laura,
• MitwirkendeR: Binfield, Kevin,; Carroll, Jane Suzanne,; Hager, Kelly,; Kingsley, Joey,; Merchant, Peter,; Nelson, Claudia,; Nixon, Cheryl L.,; Peters, Laura,; Rea, Ann,; Salisbury, Harriet,; Wagner, Tamara S.,; Warren, Diane,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 4 B/W illustrations

Examines literary orphan figures and kinship structures in the nineteenth-century novelExamines a wide range of canonical and non-canonical authors from the UK, US, Canada, SwitzerlandProvides an important and unique contribution to fields of family and kinship studiesIncludes an international, contemporary, critically-informed collection of interesting approachesOffers an important intervention in the most cutting-edge work on children’s literature and family and kinship studiesRereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can be used to illuminate our understanding of the culture and mores of the long nineteenth century, especially those relating to family and kinship. The chapters in the book explore how orphan characters (both child and adult) contribute to discourses of gender, home, inheritance, illegitimacy, notions of the human and the development of the novel across a wide range of canonical and non-canonical texts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Rereading Orphanhood -- 1. The Legal Guardian and Ward: Discovering the Orphan’s ‘Best Interests’ in Mansfield Park and Mrs Fitzherbert’s Notorious Adoption Case -- 2. Orphanhoods and Bereavements in the Life and Verse of Charlotte Smith Richardson (1775–1825) -- 3. ‘Like some of the princesses in the fairy stories, only I was not charming’: The Literary Orphan and the Victorian Novel -- 4. Adoptive Reading -- 5. No Place Like Home: The Orphaned Waif in Victorian Narratives of Rescue and Redemption -- 6. Bodily Filth and Disorientation: Navigating Orphan Transformations in the Works of Dr Thomas Barnardo and Charles Dickens -- 7. The Limits of the Human? Exhibiting Colonial Orphans in Victorian Culture -- 8. Getting the Father Back: The Orphan’s Oath in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name and R. D. Blackmore’s Erema -- 9. Girlhood and Space in Nineteenth-Century Orphan Literature -- 10. ‘The accumulated and single’: Modernity, Inheritance and Orphan Identity -- 11. ‘Something worse than the past in not being yet over’: Elizabeth Bowen’s Orphans, Exile and the Predicaments of Modernity -- 12. Orphans, Money and Marriage in Sensation Novels by Wilkie Collins and Philip Pullman -- Coda: Rereading Orphanhood -- Index