Cheryl L Nixon

The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature

Estate, Blood, and Body

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining novels by authors such as Haywood, Smollett, and Inchbald, and uncovering new manuscript and print case records, Cheryl Nixon compares tales of fictional orphans to narratives of legal orphans. Focusing on the eighteenth-century construction of the "valued" orphan, her book shows this figure's centrality to the development of new novelistic subgenres, new ideologies of the individual, and new understandings of property, family, and gender.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781138261846
• ISBN-10: 113826184X
• Artikelnr.: 57814984

Autorenporträt

Cheryl Nixon is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her publications on eighteenth-century literature, law, and the family include Novel Definitions: An Anthology of Commentary on the Novel, 1688-1815.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: the valued orphan: law and literature; Part 1
Estate: The poor orphan: factual/fictional institutions and statutory law;
The propertied orphan: public/private papers and Parliamentary Acts. Part 2
Blood: The male orphan plot: fictionalizing the family in Annesley v.
Anglesey; The female orphan plot: rewriting and rereading the family in
Palmer v. Palmer. Part 3 Body: The confined orphan: ravishing guardians and
the heiress' marriage plot; The mobile orphan: charitable bodies and the
gentleman's picaresque; Conclusion: the valued individual: estate, blood,
and body; Bibliography; Index.