Rereading Orphanhood : texts, inheritance, kin /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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Table of Contents:
- 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