Bastards and foundlings : illegitimacy in eighteenth-century England /

"In this study of what has been called the "century of illegitimacy," Lisa Zunshine seeks to uncover the multiplicity of cultural meanings of illegitimacy in the English Enlightenment. Bastards and Foundlings pits the official legal views on illegitimacy against the actual everyday pr...

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Author / Creator: Zunshine, Lisa.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2005.
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Online Access:Click here for full text at Project MUSE
Table of Contents:
  • Bastard daughters and foundling heroines : rewriting illegitimacy in The conscious lovers
  • Moll Flanders and the English "shelter for bastards"
  • Kicking out the cubs : the wrong heirs of Richardson's Clarissa
  • Tom Jones : resisting the mythologization of bastardy
  • Female philanthropy, the London Foundling Hospital, and Richardson's The history of Sir Charles Grandison
  • The children "owned by none" : divided bastardy in Frances Burney's Evelina
  • Harriet Smith in Brunswick Square : "common sense" bastardy in Austen's Emma
  • Postscript : BBC rewrites Tom Jones's illegitimacy.