Rereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin

Diane Warren; Laura Peters

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

Rereading Orphanhood

Texts, Inheritance, Kin

Diane Warren and Laura Peters

In the series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474464383

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About this book

Examines literary orphan figures and kinship structures in the nineteenth-century novel

Examines a wide range of canonical and non-canonical authors from the UK, US, Canada, Switzerland
Provides an important and unique contribution to fields of family and kinship studies
Includes an international, contemporary, critically-informed collection of interesting approaches
Offers an important intervention in the most cutting-edge work on children’s literature and family and kinship studies

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. The chapters in the book explore how orphan characters (both child and adult) contribute to discourses of gender, home, inheritance, illegitimacy, notions of the human and the development of the novel across a wide range of canonical and non-canonical texts.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Series Editor’s Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction: Rereading Orphanhood Laura Peters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Legal Guardian and Ward: Discovering the Orphan’s ‘Best Interests’ in Mansfield Park and Mrs Fitzherbert’s Notorious Adoption Case Cheryl L. Nixon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
2. Orphanhoods and Bereavements in the Life and Verse of Charlotte Smith Richardson (1775–1825) Kevin Binfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3. ‘Like some of the princesses in the fairy stories, only I was not charming’: The Literary Orphan and the Victorian Novel Tamara S. Wagner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
4. Adoptive Reading Kelly Hager Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5. No Place Like Home: The Orphaned Waif in Victorian Narratives of Rescue and Redemption Harriet Salisbury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
6. Bodily Filth and Disorientation: Navigating Orphan Transformations in the Works of Dr Thomas Barnardo and Charles Dickens Joey Kingsley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
7. The Limits of the Human? Exhibiting Colonial Orphans in Victorian Culture Laura Peters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
8. Getting the Father Back: The Orphan’s Oath in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name and R. D. Blackmore’s Erema Peter Merchant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
9. Girlhood and Space in Nineteenth-Century Orphan Literature Jane Suzanne Carroll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
10. ‘The accumulated and single’: Modernity, Inheritance and Orphan Identity Diane Warren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
11. ‘Something worse than the past in not being yet over’: Elizabeth Bowen’s Orphans, Exile and the Predicaments of Modernity Ann Rea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
12. Orphans, Money and Marriage in Sensation Novels by Wilkie Collins and Philip Pullman Claudia Nelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
Coda: Rereading Orphanhood Diane Warren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Other: 4 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474464383