Adopting America - Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature

Zusatztext This book succeeds admirably...through deep historical contextualization and close literary analysis of theme and form. Informationen zum Autor Carol J. Singley is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, Camden. She is the author of Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit (Cambridge, 1995) and the editor of The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader (Rutgers UP, 2003), Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth: A Casebook (OUP, 2003) and A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton (OUP, 2003). Klappentext Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-213) index. Zusammenfassung A literary history that considers works by Cotton Mather, Ben Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and others to illustrate the relationship between adoption and nation-building in American culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Abandoned and Adopted in a New World 2: Problems of Patrimony: Benjamin Franklin and Ann Sargent Gage 3: Adoption Averted in The Scarlet Letter 4: Plotting Adoption: Dependence and Independence 5: Child Saving, Nation Building: The Wide, Wide World and The Lamplighter 6: Servitude and Homelessness: Harriet Wilson's Our Nig 7: The Limits of Nurture: Louisa May Alcott's Adoption Fiction 8: Charity Begins and Ends at Home: Edith Wharton's Summer Index

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• Authors: Carol J Singley, Carol J. Singley, Carol J. (Associate Professor of English Singley, Singley Carol J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2011
• EAN: 9780199779390
• ISBN: 978-0-19-977939-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Literature, HISTORY / United States / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, History of the Americas, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general