Ann Campbell

Families of the Heart

Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

In this innovative analysis of canonical British novels, Campbell identifies a new literary device - the surrogate family - as a signal of cultural anxieties about young women's changing relationship to matrimony across the long eighteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press, U.S.
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781684484232
• ISBN-10: 1684484235
• Artikelnr.: 63430113

Autorenporträt

ANN CAMPBELL has published articles about family, courtship and marriage, and pedagogy in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Eighteenth-Century Life, Eighteenth-Century Women, Aphra Behn Online, and Digital Defoe. She is a professor of English at Boise State University in Idaho.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1          Just Business: Surrogate Families as Entrepreneurial Ventures in
Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana
2          Building a Foundation for the Family of the Heart: Prototypes of
Surrogate Families in Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Pamela in her Exalted
Condition
3          Perfecting the Family of the Heart: Relationship Remembered in
Richardson's Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison
4          An Affinity for Learning: Eliza Haywood's The History of Miss
Betsy Thoughtless and The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy
5          Adopting to Change: Choosing Family in Frances Burney's Evelina
and Cecilia
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index