Author: Timothy Shay ArthurPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Orphan Children
Author: Timothy Shay ArthurThe Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature
Author: Cheryl L. NixonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317021940
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body. Examining novels by authors such as Eliza Haywood, Tobias Smollett, and Elizabeth Inchbald, and referencing never-before analyzed case records, Nixon reconstructs the narratives of real orphans in the British parliamentary, equity, and common law courts and compares them to the narratives of fictional orphans. The orphan's uncertain economic, familial, and bodily status creates opportunities to "plot" his or her future according to new ideologies of the social individual. Nixon demonstrates that the orphan encourages both fact and fiction to re-imagine structures of estate (property and inheritance), blood (familial origins and marriage), and body (gender and class mobility). Whereas studies of the orphan typically emphasize the poor urban foundling, Nixon focuses on the orphaned heir or heiress and his or her need to be situated in a domestic space. Arguing that the eighteenth century constructs the "valued" orphan, Nixon shows how the wealthy orphan became associated with new understandings of the individual. New archival research encompassing print and manuscript records from Parliament, Chancery, Exchequer, and King's Bench demonstrate the law's interest in the propertied orphan. The novel uses this figure to question the formulaic structures of narrative sub-genres such as the picaresque and romance and ultimately encourage the hybridization of such plots. As Nixon traces the orphan's contribution to the developing novel and developing ideology of the individual, she shows how the orphan creates factual and fictional understandings of class, family, and gender.
Problems and Prospects of Orphans
Author: Dr. Mashkoor Ahmad LonePublisher: OrangeBooks Publication
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
By the Almighty of Allah I preparing first book Problems and prospects of orphans. This book covers university syllabi and all competitive syllabi in sociology in the papers entailed Demography, Social Demography, orphans problems, orphan studies vital statics etc. Analytic presentation of data derived from authentic sources, holistic approach to controversial problems simple and easily narrations with examples from circumstances make this work an ideal for students and a reference work for teachers and research scholars Starting from historical reviews and discussions of the concept, scope, and importance of orphan problems. The book includes chapters on: introduction of orphans, related reviews and theories, related methodology of orphans, problems of orphans, culture health and economic aspect of orphan’s technological and futuristic view of orphans and case study of orphans. I also thank to all those who have helped me directly or indirectly in preparing this book especially my Ph. D Guide Dr P. Ganesan Assistant professor, Department of Sociology Annamalai University and my family members. Last but not the least I acknowledged my gratitude to all those near and dear who inspired, encouraged and supported and helped me with their kind guidance to pen down this book. Suggestions for improvement are solicited from indulgent readers.
We Rode the Orphan Trains
Author: Andrea WarrenPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618432356
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
They were "throwaway" kids, living on the streets or in orphanages and foster homes. Then Charles Loring Brace, a young minister in New York City, started the Children's Aid Society and devised a plan to give these homeless waifs a chance at finding families they could call their own. Thus began an extraordinary migration of American children. Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 200,000 children ventured forth on a journey of hope. Here, in the sequel to Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, Andrea Warren introduces nine men and women who rode the trains and helped make history so many years ago.
A Census of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Two Zimbabwean Districts
Author: Shungu MunyatiPublisher: HSRC Press
ISBN: 9780796921468
Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This is a report on census of orphans and vulnerable children in two districts in Zimbabwe.
The Orphans of Byzantium
Author: Timothy S. MillerPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813213134
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
In The Orphans of Byzantium, Miller provides a perceptive and original study of the evolution of orphanages in the Byzantine Empire.
The Orphan in Fiction and Comics since the 19th Century
Author: Marion GymnichPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527515702
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The orphan has turned out to be an extraordinarily versatile literary figure. By juxtaposing diverse fictional representations of orphans, this volume sheds light on the development of cultural concepts such as childhood, family, the status of parental legacy, individualism, identity and charity. The first chapter argues that the figure of the orphan was suitable for negotiating a remarkable range of cultural anxieties and discourses in novels from the Victorian period. This is followed by a discussion of both the (rare) examples of novels from the first half of the 20th century in which main characters are orphaned at a young age and Anglophone narratives written from the 1980s onward, when the figure of the orphan proliferated once more. The trope of the picaro, the theme of absence and the problem of parental substitutes are among the issues addressed in contemporary orphan narratives. The book also looks at the orphan motif in three popular fantasy series, namely Rowling’s Harry Potter septology, Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy and Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. It then traces the development of the orphan motif from the end of the 19th century to the present in a range of different types of comics, including funnies and gag-a-day strips, superhero comics, underground comix, and autobiographical comics.
Defining Orphaned and Vulnerable Children
Author: Publisher: HSRC Press
ISBN: 9780796920645
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Cultural Orphans in America
Author: Diana Loercher PazickyPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617030937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Images of orphanhood have pervaded American fiction since the colonial period. Common in British literature, the orphan figure in American texts serves a unique cultural purpose, representing marginalized racial, ethnic, and religious groups that have been scapegoated by the dominant culture. Among these groups are the Native Americans, the African Americans, immigrants, and Catholics. In keeping with their ideological function, images of orphanhood occur within the context of family metaphors in which children represent those who belong to the family, or the dominant culture, and orphans represent those who are excluded from it. In short, the family as an institution provides the symbolic stage on which the drama of American identity formation is played out. Applying aspects of psychoanalytic theory that pertain to identity formation, specifically René Girard's theory of the scapegoat, Cultural Orphans in America examines the orphan trope in early American texts and the antebellum nineteenth-century American novel as a reaction to the social upheaval and internal tensions generated by three major episodes in American history: the Great Migration, the American Revolution, and the rise of the republic. In Puritan religious texts and Anne Bradstreet's poetry, orphan imagery expresses the doubt and uncertainty that shrouded the mission to the New World. During the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary periods, the separation of the colony from England inspired an identification with orphanhood in Thomas Paine's writings, and novels by Charles Brockden Brown and James Fenimore Cooper encode in orphan imagery the distinction between Native Americans and the new Americans who have usurped their position as children of the land. In women's sentimental fiction of the 1850s, images of orphanhood mirror class and ethnic conflict, and Uncle Tom's Cabin, like Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, employs orphan imagery to suggest the slave's orphanhood from the human as well as the national family.
Japanese War Orphans in Manchuria
Author: M. ItohPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230106366
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Japanese war orphans in Manchuria are the forgotten victims of the Asia-Pacific War and Sino-Japanese relations, and this is an integral part of the Japanese government's 'postwar settlement' issues concerning its war responsibility and compensation.