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Bastards and Foundlings
Lisa Zunshine
其他書名
Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England
出版
Ohio State University Press
, 2017-06-26
主題
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
ISBN
0814254551
9780814254554
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9IrhswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
In this compelling interdisciplinary study of what has been called the "century of illegitimacy," Lisa Zunshine seeks to uncover the multiplicity of cultural meanings of illegitimacy in the English Enlightenment.
Bastards and Foundlings
pits the official legal views on illegitimacy against the actual everyday practices that frequently circumvented the law; it reconstructs the history of social institutions called upon to regulate illegitimacy, such as the London Foundling Hospital; and it examines a wide array of novels and plays written in response to the same concerns that informed the emergence and functioning of such institutions. By recreating the context of the national preoccupation with bastardy, with a special emphasis on the gender of the fictional bastard/foundling, Zunshine offers new readings of "canonical" texts, such as Steele's
The Conscious Lovers
, Defoe's
Moll Flanders
, Fielding's
Tom Jone
s, Moore's
The Foundling
, Colman's
The English Merchant
, Richardson's
Clarissa
and
Sir Charles Grandison
, Burney's
Evelina
, Smith's
Emmeline
, Edgewort's
Belinda
, and Austen's
Emma
, as well as of less well-known works, such as Haywood's
The Fortunate Foundlings
, Shebbeare's
The Marriage Act
, Bennett's
The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactor
s, and Robinson's
The Natural Daughter
.