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Author:

Nixon, Cheryl, 1965- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009047475

Title:

The orphan in eighteenth-century law and literature : estate, blood, and body / Cheryl L. Nixon.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

x, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Orphans in literature.
Property in literature.
Orphans--History--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Orphans--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Law and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-282) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: the valued orphan: law and literature -- The poor orphan: factual/fictional institutions and statutory law -- The propertied orphan: public/private papers and parliamentary acts -- The male orphan plot: fictionalizing the family in Annesley v. Anglesey -- The female orphan plot: rewriting and rereading the family in Palmer v. Palmer -- The confined orphan: ravishing guardians and the heiress' marriage plot -- The mobile orphan: charitable bodies and the gentleman's picaresque -- Conclusion: the valued individual: estate, blood, and body.

Series:

Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present

ISBN:

0754664244
9780754664246

OCLC:

(OCoLC)664519560

LCCN:

2010037655

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)