Street Urchins, Sociopaths and Degenerates : Orphans of late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction
by
David Floyd
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1783160101
ISBN-13
9781783160105
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Imprint
University of Wales Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 15th, 2014
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
470 grams
Dimensions
14.80 x 22.20 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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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.
Orphans are ubiquitous in the literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and there have been countless critical studies that consider orphans metaphoric implications and the manner in which they function as barometers of burgeoning social concerns. But the fin de siècle gothic orphan has been largely overlooked, if not denied outright. In Street Urchins, Sociopaths and Degenerates, David Floyd gives these characters their due, comparing and contrasting the orphans of fin de siècle genre fiction with their predecessors in works from first-wave gothic and the majority of Victorian fiction. Among the works he considers are The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, Kim, and Jude the Obscure.
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