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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552781003321

Autore

Zunshine Lisa

Titolo

Bastards and Foundlings : Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England / / Lisa Zunshine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

0-8142-7298-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 228 p. )

Disciplina

820.9/3552

Soggetti

Adultery in literature

Foundlings in literature

Parent and child in literature

Illegitimate children in literature

Illegitimacy - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Illegitimate children - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Illegitimacy in literature

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-218) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.