Bastards and foundlings
Subtitle: illegitimacy in eighteenth-century England
By: Lisa Zunshine.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Illegitimacy in literature; Illegitimate children -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Illegitimacy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Illegitimate children in literature; Parent and child in literature; Foundlings in literature; Adultery in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bastard daughters and foundling heroines : rewriting illegitimacy in The conscious lovers; title: Moll Flanders and the English "shelter for bastards"; title: Kicking out the cubs : the wrong heirs of Richardson's Clarissa; title: Tom Jones : resisting the mythologization of bastardy; title: Female philanthropy, the London Foundling Hospital, and Richardson's The history of Sir Charles Grandison; title: The children "owned by none" : divided bastardy in Frances Burney's Evelina; title: Harriet Smith in Brunswick Square : "common sense" bastardy in Austen's Emma; title: Postscript : BBC rewrites Tom Jones's illegitimacy.