The orphan in Eighteenth-Century fic...
König, Eva,

 

  • The orphan in Eighteenth-Century fiction :the vicissitudes of the Eighteenth-Century subject /
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    杜威分類號: 823/.5093526945
    書名/作者: The orphan in Eighteenth-Century fiction : : the vicissitudes of the Eighteenth-Century subject // Eva König.
    作者: König, Eva,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource.
    標題: 1700 - 1799
    標題: English literature - History and criticism. - 18th century
    標題: Orphans in literature.
    標題: Property in literature.
    標題: English literature.
    ISBN: 1137382023 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9781137382023 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: 1. Introduction -- PART I: BASTARDS AND FOUNDLINGS IN PRE-IMAGINARY OSCILLATION -- 2. "Moll Flanders" and Fluid Identity -- 3. "Tom Jones" and Narrative (Il)legimitacy -- PART II: MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL: THE DELUDED HEIRESS AND THE IMAGINARY -- 4. The Coquette's Lesson: Haywood's "Betsy Thoughtless" -- 5. The Tragic Coquette: Inchbald's "A Simple Story" -- 6. Becoming a Benefactress: Burney's "Cecilia" -- 7. The Imaginist: Lennox's "The Female Quixote" -- 8. Jane Austen's "Emma", the Arch-Imaginist -- PART III: DISPOSSESSED CHILDREN: THE SUBJECT OF THE SYMBOLIC -- 9. The Name of the Father: Burney's "Evelina" -- 10. The Law of the Father: Inchbald's "A Simple Story" -- 11. Doomed: Mary Hays's "The Victim of Prejudice" -- 12. Liberating Daughters: Charlotte Smith's "Emmeline" -- 13. The Gothic of Family Romance -- 14. Legitimacy in Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" -- 15. Dis/Harmony in Clara Reeve's "The Old English Baron" -- 16. Avenged: Ann Radcliffe's "The Romance of the Forest" -- PART IV: THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED: RADCLIFFE'S MATRIARCHY -- 17. Escaped: Ann Radcliffe's "A Sicilian Romance" -- 18. Sanctuary in Ann Radcliffe's "The Italian" -- PART V: THE ORPHAN IN MOURNING -- 19. Taking Farewell: Jane Austen's "Persuasion" -- 20. Conclusion.
    摘要、提要註: The orphan is ubiquitous in fiction yet a long-neglected figure in criticism. Filling this critical gap, "The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction" crystallizes three pivotal types of orphan in the long eighteenth century: the foundling, the heiress and the dispossessed child. Using a psychoanalytic approach, this book examines the orphan's changing role in the cultural imaginary of the age as well its relationship to the novel and the middle-class subject. Far from being a stock character, the orphan is a nuanced figure which enables a subtle understanding of the social anxieties of the period. This theoretically informed book highlights the key role the orphan figure plays in the construction of gendered subjectivity. Containing in-depth analyses of sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this study is an essential guide to the prehistory of the orphan figure before the canonical novels of the Victorian period.
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137382023
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