The orphan in eighteenth-century law and literature
Subtitle: estate, blood, and body
By: by Cheryl L. Nixon
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780754664246
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the valued orphan: law and literature; title: The poor orphan: factual/fictional institutions and statutory law; title: The propertied orphan: public/private papers and parliamentary acts; title: The male orphan plot: fictionalizing the family in Annesley v. Anglesey; title: The female orphan plot: rewriting and rereading the family in Palmer v. Palmer; title: The confined orphan: ravishing guardians and the heiress' marriage plot; title: The mobile orphan: charitable bodies and the gentleman's picaresque; title: Conclusion: the valued individual: estate, blood, and body.