Bastards and foundlings : illegitimacy in eighteenth-century England / Lisa Zunshine.
Published / Created:
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2005.
Physical Description:
xi, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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Table of contents
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip053/2004026571.html
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-218) and index.
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.
Subject Terms:
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. | Illegitimacy in literature. | Illegitimate children -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. | Illegitimacy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. | Illegitimate children in literature. | Parent and child in literature. | Foundlings in literature. | Adultery in literature.