Bastards and foundlings : illegitimacy in eighteenth-century England /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Zunshine, Lisa.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Imprint:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2005]
Subjects:	18th century English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. English literature. 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. Illegitimacy. History. Illegitimate children. Great Britain.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Cultural Narratives of Illegitimacy
Chapter 1. Bastard Daughters and Foundling Heroines: Rewriting Illegitimacy in The Conscious Lovers
Chapter 2. Moll Flanders and the English "Shelter for Bastards"
Chapter 3. Kicking Out the Cubs: The Wrong Heirs in Richardson's Clarissa
Chapter 4. Tom Jones: Resisting the Mythologization of Bastardy
Chapter 5. Female Philanthropy, the London Foundling Hospital, and Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison
Chapter 6. The Children "Owned By None": Divided Bastardy in Frances Burney's Evelina
Chapter 7. Harriet Smith in Brunswick Square: "Common Sense" Bastardy in Austen's Emma
Postscript: BBC Rewrites Tom Jones's Illegitimacy
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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