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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Rereading Orphanhood -- 1. The Legal Guardian and Ward: Discovering the Orphan's 'Best Interests' in Mansfi eld 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
edited by Diane Warren and Laura Peters.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture