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Rereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture) - Hardcover

 
9781474464369: Rereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 147446436X ISBN 13: 9781474464369
Verlag: EDINBURGH UNIV PR, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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).

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Verlag
EDINBURGH UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
147446436X
ISBN 13 
9781474464369
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
288
Herausgeber
Warren Diane, Peters Laura
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