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The orphan in eighteenth-century law and literature : estate, blood, and body / Cheryl L. Nixon.
Van Pelt Library PR448.O77 N59 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nixon, Cheryl L.
- Series:
- Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Orphans in literature.
- Property in literature.
- Orphans--Legal status, laws, etc--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Orphans.
- Orphans--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Law and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Law and literature.
- History.
- Orphans--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- x, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]
- Summary:
- Examining depiction of orphans in 18th-century novels, Nixon (English, U. of Massachusetts-Boston) finds that the literary figure of the abandoned, destitute, urban orphan largely appears a century later, a product of Victorian literature and its interest in the social plight of the poor or dispossessed. The representation she does find is more open-ended, changeful and multivalent. Taking the three themes of the subtitle in turn, she considers such matters as public and private papers and parliamentary acts concerning the propertied orphan, fictionalizing the family of the male orphan in Annesley v. Anglesey, and the confined orphan's ravishing guardians and the heiress' marriage plot. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Introduction: the valued orphan: law and literature
- The poor orphan: factual/fictional institutions and statutory law
- The propertied orphan: public/private papers and parliamentary acts
- The male orphan plot: fictionalizing the family in Annesley v. Anglesey
- The female orphan plot: rewriting and rereading the family in Palmer v. Palmer
- The confined orphan: ravishing guardians and the heiress' marriage plot
- The mobile orphan: charitable bodies and the gentleman's picaresque
- Conclusion: the valued individual: estate, blood, and body.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780754664246
- 0754664244
- OCLC:
- 664519560
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