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  title info:
    title: Adopting America
    sub title: childhood, kinship, and national identity in literature
  name:
    name part: Singley, Carol J.
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: ©2011
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ix, 224 pages)
  abstract: American literature abounds with orphans who experience adoption or placements that resemble adoption. These stories do more than recount adventures of children living away from home. They tell an American story of family and national identity.
  table of contents: Abandoned and adopted in a new world -- Problems of patrimony: Benjamin Franklin and Ann Sargent Gage -- Adoption averted in The scarlet letter -- Plotting adoption: dependence and independence -- Child saving, nation building: The wide, wide world and The lamplighter -- Servitude and homelessness: Harriet Wilson's Our nig -- The limits of nurture: Louisa May Alcott's adoption fiction -- Charity begins and ends at home: Edith Wharton's Summer.
  note: Carol J. Singley.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Families in literature
  subject:
    topic: Adoption in literature
  subject:
    topic: National characteristics, American, in literature
  subject:
    topic: Children in literature
  subject:
    topic: Familles dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Adoption dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: American
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Adoption in literature
  subject:
    topic: American literature
  subject:
    topic: Children in literature
  subject:
    topic: Families in literature
  subject:
    topic: National characteristics, American, in literature
  classification: PS169.F35 S56 2011eb
  classification: 810.9/355
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Adopting America
    name:
      name part: Singley, Carol J., 1951-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011
    identifier: (DLC) 2010032159
    identifier: (OCoLC)653483652
  identifier: 9780199778881
  identifier: 0199778884
  identifier: 9780199779390
  identifier: 0199779392
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 110406
    record change date: 20260318184723.1
    record identifier: in00005706304
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng