The orphan in Eighteenth-Century fiction : the vicissitudes of the Eighteenth-Century subject / Eva König.

The orphan is ubiquitous in fiction yet a long-neglected figure in criticism. Filling this critical gap, "The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction" crystallizes three pivotal types of orphan in the long eighteenth century: the foundling, the heiress and the dispossessed child. Using a psyc...

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