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From the notable emergence of orphan figures in late eighteenth-century literature, through early- and middle-period Victorian fiction and, as this book argues, well into the fin de siecle, this potent literary type is remarkable for its consistent recurrence and its metamorphos…
Taking examples from Gothic, island adventure, imperial, and children's literature, this book addresses the remarkable metaphorical disparity between, and cultural implications of, orphans in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth British fiction and in more recent instances.
