Rereading orphanhood : texts, inheritance, kin / edited by Diane Warren and Laura Peters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warren, Diane, Author.

Contributor:

Warren, Diane, editor.

Peters, Laura, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Children in literature.

Orphans in literature.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Rereading 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.

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Oct 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-8482-4

1-4744-6438-6

OCLC:

1312727288