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Bastards and Foundlings : Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England /

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Main Author: Zunshine, Lisa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Parent and child in literature.
Illegitimate children in literature.
Illegitimate children.
Illegitimacy in literature.
Illegitimacy.
Foundlings in literature.
English literature.
Adultery in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Filiation naturelle dans la litterature.
Enfants naturels > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Filiation naturelle > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Enfants naturels dans la litterature.
Parents et enfants dans la litterature.
Enfants trouves dans la litterature.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Illegitimate children > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Illegitimacy > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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