The orphan in eighteenth-century law and literature : estate, blood, and body / Cheryl L. Nixon
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Main Collection post-1900
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Publication Year
2011
Publisher
Subject
English literature-18th century-History and criticism;Orphans in literature;Property in literature;Orphans-Legal status, laws, etc. Great Britain-History-18th century;Orphans-Great Britain-History-18th century
Description
(SBN) 9780754664246 (hbk.) :||(BIB) Includes bibliographical references and index.||(CON) 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.
Biblio Notes
x, 290 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. (hbk)
Number of Copies
1