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Imagined orphans : poor families, child welfare, and contested citizenship in London /

With his dirty, tattered clothes and hollowed-out face, the image of Oliver Twist is the enduring symbol of the young indigent spilling out of the orphanages and haunting the streets of late-nineteenth-century London. He is the victim of two evils: an aristocratic ruling class and, more directly, ne...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murdoch, Lydia, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2007, ©2006.
Colección:Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "A little waif of London, rescued from the streets": melodrama and popular representations of poor children
  • From barrack schools to family cottages: creating domestic space and civic identity for poor children
  • The parents of "nobody's children": family backgrounds and the causes of poverty
  • "That most delicate of all questions in an Englishman's mind": the rights of parents and their continued contact with institutionalized children
  • Training "Street Arabs" into British citizens: making artisans and members of empire
  • "Their charge and ours": changing notions of child welfare and citizenship.