Rereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1474464378 ISBN 13 : 9781474464376

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2022

Synopsis

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, 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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Dr Diane Warren is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at University of Portsmouth. She is the author of Djuna Barnes' Consuming Fictions, (Ashgate, 2008).

Professor Laura Peters is based at University of Roehampton. She is a well-published author including Dickens and Race (MUP, 2013) and Orphan Texts: Victorian Orphans, Culture and Empire (MUP, 2000).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474464378
• ISBN 13: 9781474464376
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Warren Diane, Peters Laura
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible