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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2007, ©2006.
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| Series: | Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- "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.