Adopting America : childhood, kinship, and national identity in literature /

Adopting America : childhood, kinship, and national identity in literature / Carol J. Singley.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Singley, Carol J., 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Families in literature.
Adoption in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Children in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Abandoned and adopted in a new world
  • Problems of patrimony: Benjamin Franklin and Ann Sargent Gage
  • Adoption averted in The scarlet letter
  • Plotting adoption: dependence and independence
  • Child saving, nation building: The wide, wide world and The lamplighter
  • Servitude and homelessness: Harriet Wilson's Our nig
  • The limits of nurture: Louisa May Alcott's adoption fiction
  • Charity begins and ends at home: Edith Wharton's Summer.

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