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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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Autor principal: Murdoch, Lydia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1: "A Little Waif of London, Rescued from the Streets": Melodrama and Popular Representations of Poor Children; Chapter 2: From Barracks Schools to Family Cottages: Creating Domestic Space and Civic Identity for Poor Children; Chapter 3: The Parents of "Nobody's Children": Family Backgrounds and the Causes of Poverty; Chapter 4: "That Most Delicate of All Questions in an Englishman's Mind": The Rights of Parents and Their Continued Contact with Institutionalized Children. 
505 0 |a Chapter 5: Training "Street Arabs" into British Citizens: Making Artisans and Members of EmpireChapter 6: "Their Charge and Ours": Changing Notions of Child Welfare and Citizenship; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. 
520 |a 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, neglectful parents. Although poor children were often portrayed as real-life Oliver Twists-either orphaned or abandoned by unworthy parents-they, in fact, frequently maintained contact and were eventually reunited with their families. In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on this disc. 
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