Rereading Orphanhood : : Texts, Inheritance, Kin /

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

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, cont...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 4 B/W illustrations
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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

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