A literary history that considers works by Cotton Mather, Ben Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and others to illustrate the relationship between adoption and nation-building in American culture.
A literary history that considers works by Cotton Mather, Ben Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and others to illustrate the relationship between adoption and nation-building in American culture.
Carol J. Singley is Professor of English at Rutgers University-Camden. She is the author of Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit and the coeditor, with Caroline Levander, of The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader.
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Introduction 1 Abandoned and Adopted in a New World 2 Problems of Patrimony: Benjamin Franklin and Ann Sargent Gage 3 Adoption Averted in The Scarlet Letter 4 Plotting Adoption: Dependence and Independence 5 Child Saving, Nation Building: The Wide, Wide World and The Lamplighter 6 Servitude and Homelessness: Harriet Wilson's Our Nig 7 The Limits of Nurture: Louisa May Alcott's Adoption Fiction 8 Charity Begins and Ends at Home: Edith Wharton's Summer Index
Introduction 1 Abandoned and Adopted in a New World 2 Problems of Patrimony: Benjamin Franklin and Ann Sargent Gage 3 Adoption Averted in The Scarlet Letter 4 Plotting Adoption: Dependence and Independence 5 Child Saving, Nation Building: The Wide, Wide World and The Lamplighter 6 Servitude and Homelessness: Harriet Wilson's Our Nig 7 The Limits of Nurture: Louisa May Alcott's Adoption Fiction 8 Charity Begins and Ends at Home: Edith Wharton's Summer Index
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