Description:Examining novels by authors such as Haywood, Smollett, and Inchbald, and uncovering new manuscript and print case records, Cheryl Nixon compares tales of fictional orphans to narratives of legal orphans. Focusing on the eighteenth-century construction of the valued orphan, her book shows this figure's centrality to the development of new novelistic subgenres, new ideologies of individual, and new understandings of property, family, and gender.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature: Estate, Blood, and Body. To get started finding The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature: Estate, Blood, and Body, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
303
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing
Release
2011
ISBN
1409434788
The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature: Estate, Blood, and Body
Description: Examining novels by authors such as Haywood, Smollett, and Inchbald, and uncovering new manuscript and print case records, Cheryl Nixon compares tales of fictional orphans to narratives of legal orphans. Focusing on the eighteenth-century construction of the valued orphan, her book shows this figure's centrality to the development of new novelistic subgenres, new ideologies of individual, and new understandings of property, family, and gender.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature: Estate, Blood, and Body. To get started finding The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature: Estate, Blood, and Body, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.