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Author Zunshine, Lisa.

Title Bastards and foundlings : illegitimacy in eighteenth-century England / Lisa Zunshine.

Publication Info. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2005]
©2005

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 Moore Stacks  PR448.I49 Z86 2005    Available  ---
Description xi, 228 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Illegitimacy in literature.
Illegitimacy in literature.
Illegitimate children -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Illegitimate children.
Great Britain.
History.
Illegitimacy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Illegitimacy.
Illegitimate children in literature.
Illegitimate children in literature.
Parent and child in literature.
Parent and child in literature.
Foundlings in literature.
Foundlings in literature.
Adultery in literature.
Adultery in literature.
ISBN 0814209955 alkaline paper
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