The orphan in eighteenth-century law and literature [electronic resource] : estate, blood, and body / Cheryl L. Nixon.
Series: Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the presentPublication details: Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011.Description: x, 290 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 823/.5093526945 22
- PR448.O77 N59 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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