Zunshine, Lisa.

Bastards and Foundlings : Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England / Lisa Zunshine. - 1 online resource (228 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Bastard daughters and foundling heroines : rewriting illegitimacy in The conscious lovers -- Moll Flanders and the English "shelter for bastards" -- Kicking out the cubs : the wrong heirs of Richardson's Clarissa -- Tom Jones : resisting the mythologization of bastardy -- Female philanthropy, the London Foundling Hospital, and Richardson's The history of Sir Charles Grandison -- The children "owned by none" : divided bastardy in Frances Burney's Evelina -- Harriet Smith in Brunswick Square : "common sense" bastardy in Austen's Emma -- Postscript : BBC rewrites Tom Jones's illegitimacy.

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Parent and child in literature.
Illegitimate children in literature.
Illegitimate children.
Illegitimacy in literature.
Illegitimacy.
Foundlings in literature.
English literature.
Adultery in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Litterature anglaise--Histoire et critique.--18e siecle
Filiation naturelle dans la litterature.
Enfants naturels--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--18e siecle.
Filiation naturelle--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--18e siecle.
Enfants naturels dans la litterature.
Parents et enfants dans la litterature.
Enfants trouves dans la litterature.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Illegitimacy in literature.
Illegitimate children--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Illegitimacy--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Illegitimate children in literature.
Parent and child in literature.
Foundlings in literature.
Adultery in literature.


Great Britain.


History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.