02612nam 2200613Ia 450 991078026160332120230617030558.01-282-07206-497866120720620-253-10557-90-253-10980-9(CKB)111087026942658(EBL)151943(OCoLC)52966391(SSID)ssj0000193307(PQKBManifestationID)11167631(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193307(PQKBWorkID)10219096(PQKB)10378737(MiAaPQ)EBC151943(MdBmJHUP)muse16612(Au-PeEL)EBL151943(CaPaEBR)ebr10026398(CaONFJC)MIL207206(EXLCZ)9911108702694265820020913d2003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrLittle strangers[electronic resource] portrayals of adoption and foster care in America, 1850-1929 /Claudia NelsonBloomington Indiana University Pressc20031 online resource (225 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-34224-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.The 1850s and their echoes : two case studies -- Money talks : the displaced child, 1860-1885 -- Melodrama and the displaced child, 1886-1906 -- Metaphor and the displaced child, 1886-1906 -- Adoption and women, 1907-1918 -- Adoption up to date : the rhetoric of mass individuality, 1919-1929.When Massachusetts passed America's first comprehensive adoption law in 1851, the usual motive for taking in an unrelated child was presumed to be the need for cheap labor. But by 1929 -- the first year that every state had an adoption law -- the adoptee's main function was seen as emotional. Little Strangers examines the representations of adoption and foster care produced over the intervening years. Claudia Nelson argues that adoption texts reflect changing attitudes toward many important social issuesAdoptionUnited StatesHistoryOrphansUnited StatesHistoryAdoption in literatureAdoptionHistory.OrphansHistory.Adoption in literature.362.73/4/0973Nelson Claudia1467212MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780261603321Little strangers3677794UNINA