The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction [electronic resource] : The Vicissitudes of the Eighteenth-Century Subject /
König, E.author.
The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this original study explains the undiminished popularity of literary orphans and reveals their key role in the construction of gendered subjectivity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; 1 Introduction; Part I: Bastards and Foundlings in Pre-Imaginary Oscillation; 2 Introduction to Part I; 3 Moll Flanders and Fluid Identity; 4 Tom Jones and Narrative (Il)legimitacy; Part II: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Deluded Heiress and the Imaginary; 5 Introduction to Part II; 6 The Coquette''s Lesson: Haywood''s Betsy Thoughtless; 7 The Tragic Coquette: Inchbald''s A Simple Story; 8 Becoming a Benefactress: Burney''s Cecilia; 9 The Imaginist: Lennox''s The Female Quixote; 10 Jane Austen''s Emma, the Arch-Imaginist
Part III: Dispossessed Children: The Subject of the Symbolic11 Introduction to Part III; 12 The Name of the Father: Burney''s Evelina; 13 The Law of the Father: Inchbald''s A Simple Story; 14 Doomed: Mary Hays'' The Victim of Prejudice; 15 Liberating Daughters: Charlotte Smith''s Emmeline; 16 The Gothic of Family Romance; 17 Legitimacy in Walpole''s The Castle of Otranto; 18 Dis/Harmony in Clara Reeve''s The Old English Baron; 19 Avenged: Ann Radcliffe''s The Romance of the Forest; Part IV: The Return of the Repressed: Radcliffe's Matriarchy; 20 Introduction to Part IV
21 Escaped: Ann Radcliffe''s A Sicilian Romance22 Sanctuary in Ann Radcliffe''s The Italian; Part V: The Orphan in Mourning; 23 Taking Farewell: Jane Austen''s Persuasion; 24 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this original study explains the undiminished popularity of literary orphans and reveals their key role in the construction of gendered subjectivity.
Fiction.
Literature-Philosophy.
Literature, Modern.
British literature.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural Theory.