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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Eric C WalkerPublisher: Ohio State University Press Imprint: Ohio State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780814215661ISBN 10: 0814215661 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 29 April 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"""Adding an important new chapter to the history of adoption, Haphazard Families shows how the transfer of children from one home to another shaped British culture. Walker's absorbing case studies illuminate the development of the Romantics' valorization of children."" --Sarah Raff, author of Jane Austen's Erotic Advice ""Examining important figures through the children they abandoned, adopted, and imagined abandoning and adopting, Walker illuminates the Romantic era by putting de facto adoption at the center of British Romanticism. His insightful analysis of the lives of real and fictional orphans adds an important chapter to the known history of adoption."" --Elisabeth Wesseling, editor of The Child Savage, 1890-2010: From Comics to Games" Author InformationEric C. Walker is Professor Emeritus of English at Florida State University, where he was department chair and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor. He is the author of Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism: Wordsworth and Austen after War, which won the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book Award Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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