Rereading Orphanhood

Texts, Inheritance, Kin
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.
Examines literary orphan figures and kinship structures in the nineteenth-century novelExamines a wide range of canonical and non-canonical authors from the UK, US, Canada, SwitzerlandProvides an important and unique contribution to fields of family and kinship studiesIncludes an international, contemporary, critically-informed collection of interesting approachesOffers an important intervention in the most cutting-edge work on children’s literature and family and kinship studiesRereading 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.

Contributor: Diane Warren (Edited by), Laura Peters (Edited by)

Pages: 288

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