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035 _a(DE-B1597)616163
035 _a(OCoLC)1312727288
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aWarren, Diane
_eautore
245 1 0 _aRereading Orphanhood :
_bTexts, Inheritance, Kin /
_cDiane Warren, Laura Peters.
264 1 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource (288 p.) :
_b4 B/W illustrations
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aEdinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tSeries Editor’s Preface --
_tNotes on Contributors --
_tIntroduction: Rereading Orphanhood --
_t1. The Legal Guardian and Ward: Discovering the Orphan’s ‘Best Interests’ in Mansfield Park and Mrs Fitzherbert’s Notorious Adoption Case --
_t2. Orphanhoods and Bereavements in the Life and Verse of Charlotte Smith Richardson (1775–1825) --
_t3. ‘Like some of the princesses in the fairy stories, only I was not charming’: The Literary Orphan and the Victorian Novel --
_t4. Adoptive Reading --
_t5. No Place Like Home: The Orphaned Waif in Victorian Narratives of Rescue and Redemption --
_t6. Bodily Filth and Disorientation: Navigating Orphan Transformations in the Works of Dr Thomas Barnardo and Charles Dickens --
_t7. The Limits of the Human? Exhibiting Colonial Orphans in Victorian Culture --
_t8. Getting the Father Back: The Orphan’s Oath in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name and R. D. Blackmore’s Erema --
_t9. Girlhood and Space in Nineteenth-Century Orphan Literature --
_t10. ‘The accumulated and single’: Modernity, Inheritance and Orphan Identity --
_t11. ‘Something worse than the past in not being yet over’: Elizabeth Bowen’s Orphans, Exile and the Predicaments of Modernity --
_t12. Orphans, Money and Marriage in Sensation Novels by Wilkie Collins and Philip Pullman --
_tCoda: Rereading Orphanhood --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aExamines 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aFamilies in literature.
650 0 _aOrphans in literature.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
_2bisacsh
700 1 _aBinfield, Kevin
_eautore
700 1 _aCarroll, Jane Suzanne
_eautore
700 1 _aHager, Kelly
_eautore
700 1 _aKingsley, Joey
_eautore
700 1 _aMerchant, Peter
_eautore
700 1 _aNelson, Claudia
_eautore
700 1 _aNixon, Cheryl L.
_eautore
700 1 _aPeters, Laura
_eautore
700 1 _aRea, Ann
_eautore
700 1 _aSalisbury, Harriet
_eautore
700 1 _aWagner, Tamara S.
_eautore
700 1 _aWarren, Diane
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781474464383?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474464383
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