The child, the state, and the Victorian novel / Laura C. Berry.
Berry, Laura C., 1957-
1999
PR878.C5 B47 1999 (Mapit)
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Title The child, the state, and the Victorian novel / Laura C. Berry.
Author Berry, Laura C., 1957-
ISBN 0813919096 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1999.
Language English
Description x, 199 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PR878.C5 B47 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 823/.809352054
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-194) and index.
Series Victorian literature and culture series
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Introduction: the rise of the child victim and the state of the novel
Hideous progeny made clean: heredity and pedagogy in the new poor law writings of James Kay and in Oliver Twist
In the bosom of the family: Dombey and Son and the wet-nursing debates of William Acton and C.H.F. Routh
Tender tyranny: the 1839 Custody of Infants Act and custodial incarceration in Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Civilization and confession in midcentury representations of infanticide and in Adam Bede
Conclusion: from pulpy infants to a nation of good animals.

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