Rereading Orphanhood : texts, inheritance, kin /
Rereading Orphanhood : texts, inheritance, kin /
edited by Diane Warren and Laura Peters.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource.
- Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture .
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
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.
9781474464383
Orphans in literature.
Families in literature.
Electronic Books.
PR4592 / .R474 2020
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
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.
9781474464383
Orphans in literature.
Families in literature.
Electronic Books.
PR4592 / .R474 2020