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Orphans in literature --- Abandoned children in literature --- Children in literature

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Children in literature --- Comparative literature --- Abandoned children in literature --- Orphans in literature

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Rereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can be used to illuminate our understanding of the culture and mores of the long nineteenth century, especially those relating to family and kinship.

English fiction --- Children in literature. --- Orphans in literature. --- Literature and society --- Childhood in literature --- Children in poetry --- History and criticism. --- History --- Literature, Modern

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'Making Home' explores the orphan child as a trope in contemporary US fiction, arguing that in times of perceived national crisis concerns about American identity, family, and literary history are articulated around this literary figure. The book focuses on orphan figures in a broad, multi-ethnic range of contemporary fiction by Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Toni Morrison.

American fiction --- Orphans in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- 21st century --- History and criticism --- Orphans in literature --- Group identity in literature. --- Literature --- Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- History and criticism.. --- American novels. --- cultural memory. --- family. --- gender. --- genre. --- kinship. --- multiculturalism. --- national identity. --- orphans. --- race.

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Canadian fiction --- American fiction --- Sentimentalism in literature. --- Child rearing in literature. --- Orphans in literature. --- Children's stories, Canadian --- Children's stories, American --- Girls in literature. --- Canadian fiction (English) --- Canadian literature --- Canadian children's stories --- History and criticism. --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- American literature --- gender --- jeugdliteratuur --- weeskinderen --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- English-Canadian fiction --- English fiction