The orphan in eighteenth-century law and literature estate, blood, and body /

Main Author: Nixon, Cheryl, 1965-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011.
Series:Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10460636
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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