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Bastards and foundlings illegitimacy in eighteenth-century England

Title
Bastards and foundlings [electronic resource] : illegitimacy in eighteenth-century England / Lisa Zunshine.
Author
Zunshine, Lisa.
Publication
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2005.

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Description
1 online resource (xi, 228 p.)
Uniform Title
Bastards and foundlings (Online)
Alternative Title
Bastards and foundlings (Online)
Subject
  • English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
  • Illegitimacy in literature
  • Illegitimate children > Great Britain > History > 18th century
  • Illegitimacy > Great Britain > History > 18th century
  • Illegitimate children in literature
  • Parent and child in literature
  • Foundlings in literature
  • Adultery in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-218) and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Bastard daughters and foundling heroines : rewriting illegitimacy in The conscious lovers -- Moll Flanders and the English "shelter for bastards" -- Kicking out the cubs : the wrong heirs of Richardson's Clarissa -- Tom Jones : resisting the mythologization of bastardy -- Female philanthropy, the London Foundling Hospital, and Richardson's The history of Sir Charles Grandison -- The children "owned by none" : divided bastardy in Frances Burney's Evelina -- Harriet Smith in Brunswick Square : "common sense" bastardy in Austen's Emma -- Postscript : BBC rewrites Tom Jones's illegitimacy.
LCCN
2004026571
OCLC
ssj0001457701
Author
Zunshine, Lisa.
Title
Bastards and foundlings [electronic resource] : illegitimacy in eighteenth-century England / Lisa Zunshine.
Imprint
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-218) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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