Adopting America: childhood, kinship, and national identity in literature

A literary history that considers works by Cotton Mather, Ben Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and others to illustrate therelationship between adoption and nation-building in American culture. INDICE: Introduction; 1: Abandoned and Adopted in a New World; 2: Problemsof 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-977939-0
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés