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childhood, kinship, and national identity in literature

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Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
Language
English
Pages
224

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Subjects
Children in literature, Families in literature, National characteristics, American, in literature, Adoption in literature, History and criticism, American literature, American literature, history and criticism, Family in literature, National characteristics in literature

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Adopting America: childhood, kinship, and national identity in literature
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Table of Contents

Abandoned and adopted in a new world
Problems of patrimony: Benjamin Franklin and Ann Sargent Gage
Adoption averted in The scarlet letter
Plotting adoption: dependence and independence
Child saving, nation building: The wide, wide world and The lamplighter
Servitude and homelessness: Harriet Wilson's Our nig
The limits of nurture: Louisa May Alcott's adoption fiction
Charity begins and ends at home: Edith Wharton's Summer.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-213) index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/355
Library of Congress
PS169.F35 S56 2011, PS169.F35S56 2011

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Pagination
ix, 224 p. ;
Number of pages
224

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OL24914190M
Internet Archive
adoptingamericac0000sing
ISBN 13
9780199779390
LCCN
2010032159
OCLC/WorldCat
653483652

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