Author: Orphan Hospital and Workhouse at Edinburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
A Brief Account of the Rise, Progress, Management and State of the Orphan-school, Hospital and Work-house at Edinburgh, as on the 1st January 1735
Author: Orphan Hospital and Workhouse at Edinburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature
Author: Cheryl L. Nixon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317021940
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body. Examining novels by authors such as Eliza Haywood, Tobias Smollett, and Elizabeth Inchbald, and referencing never-before analyzed case records, Nixon reconstructs the narratives of real orphans in the British parliamentary, equity, and common law courts and compares them to the narratives of fictional orphans. The orphan's uncertain economic, familial, and bodily status creates opportunities to "plot" his or her future according to new ideologies of the social individual. Nixon demonstrates that the orphan encourages both fact and fiction to re-imagine structures of estate (property and inheritance), blood (familial origins and marriage), and body (gender and class mobility). Whereas studies of the orphan typically emphasize the poor urban foundling, Nixon focuses on the orphaned heir or heiress and his or her need to be situated in a domestic space. Arguing that the eighteenth century constructs the "valued" orphan, Nixon shows how the wealthy orphan became associated with new understandings of the individual. New archival research encompassing print and manuscript records from Parliament, Chancery, Exchequer, and King's Bench demonstrate the law's interest in the propertied orphan. The novel uses this figure to question the formulaic structures of narrative sub-genres such as the picaresque and romance and ultimately encourage the hybridization of such plots. As Nixon traces the orphan's contribution to the developing novel and developing ideology of the individual, she shows how the orphan creates factual and fictional understandings of class, family, and gender.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317021940
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body. Examining novels by authors such as Eliza Haywood, Tobias Smollett, and Elizabeth Inchbald, and referencing never-before analyzed case records, Nixon reconstructs the narratives of real orphans in the British parliamentary, equity, and common law courts and compares them to the narratives of fictional orphans. The orphan's uncertain economic, familial, and bodily status creates opportunities to "plot" his or her future according to new ideologies of the social individual. Nixon demonstrates that the orphan encourages both fact and fiction to re-imagine structures of estate (property and inheritance), blood (familial origins and marriage), and body (gender and class mobility). Whereas studies of the orphan typically emphasize the poor urban foundling, Nixon focuses on the orphaned heir or heiress and his or her need to be situated in a domestic space. Arguing that the eighteenth century constructs the "valued" orphan, Nixon shows how the wealthy orphan became associated with new understandings of the individual. New archival research encompassing print and manuscript records from Parliament, Chancery, Exchequer, and King's Bench demonstrate the law's interest in the propertied orphan. The novel uses this figure to question the formulaic structures of narrative sub-genres such as the picaresque and romance and ultimately encourage the hybridization of such plots. As Nixon traces the orphan's contribution to the developing novel and developing ideology of the individual, she shows how the orphan creates factual and fictional understandings of class, family, and gender.
Publications of the Scottish History Society
Author: Scottish History Society
Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography
Author: Sir Arthur Mitchell
Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Contemporary Printed Sources for British and Irish Economic History 1701-1750
Author: L. W. Hanson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521051967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
This 1963 volume records all new works on economic affairs published in British and Irish libraries in the first half of the eighteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521051967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
This 1963 volume records all new works on economic affairs published in British and Irish libraries in the first half of the eighteenth century.
Author-catalogue of printed books in European languages. With a supplementary list of newspapers. 1904. 2 v
Author: Imperial Library, Calcutta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Author-catalogue of printed books in European languages. With a supplementary list of newspapers. 1904. 2 v
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain
Author: Samuel Halkett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature
Author: Samuel Halkett
Publisher: Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd.
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher: Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd.
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description