Description: Haphazard Families : Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of Modern Adoption, Paperback by Walker, Eric C., ISBN 0814259081, ISBN-13 9780814259085, Brand New, Free shipping in the US There are no provisions for adoption in English common law, and adoption wasn't legally formalized in England and Wales until 1926. But a century earlier, untimely adoptions navigated the new exceptionalism of childhood in Romanticism. In Haphazard Families, Eric C. Walker explores the history of the adopted child in Romantic-era England. Taking up the stories of both fictional and historical adoptees, he demonstrates how these children, diminished to nonpersons, shouldered the burden of social constructs of nation, family, gender, and class. Walker further demonstrates how Rousseau’s infamous failure to follow his own ideals of parenthood shaped British reactions in famous texts such as Frankenstein and Emma. Incorporating perspectives from Romantic scholarship and critical adoption studies and examining the stories of adopted children associated with Queen Caroline, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Jane Austen, the Wordsworth siblings, Mary Shelley, Charles and Mary Lamb, Letitia Landon, and others, Haphazard Families considers how Romantic constructions of childhood supply foundational structures of modern adoptee subjectivity.
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Book Title: Haphazard Families : Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of M
Number of Pages: 246 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Haphazard Families : Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of Modern Adoption
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2024
Subject: Sociology / General, Modern / 19th Century, Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Eric C. Walker
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, History
Series: Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
