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Ashgate
Language
English
Pages
290

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Subjects
English literature, Orphans in literature, History and criticism, Property in literature, Law and literature, Orphans, Legal status, laws, History, English literature, history and criticism, 18th century, Great britain, history, 18th century, Littérature anglaise, Histoire et critique, Droit et littérature, Histoire, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Englisch, Literatur, Waisenkind, Rechtsstellung, Weeskinderen, Engels, Bellettrie
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Great Britain
Times
18th century

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The orphan in eighteenth-century law and literature: estate, blood, and body
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Burlington, VT

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Dewey Decimal Class
823/.5093526945
Library of Congress
PR448.O77 N59 2011, PR448.O77N59 2011, PR448.O77 N59 2011eb

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p. cm.
Number of pages
290

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OL24384243M
ISBN 13
9780754664246
LCCN
2010037655
OCLC/WorldCat
664519560, 726826708

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