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Street Urchins, Sociopaths and Degenerates: Orphans of Late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction

By David Floyd

Book information

Publisher
University of Wales Press
Year
2014
ISBN
1783160101, 9781783160105
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4250031 bytes)
Pages
272\272
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-11-26 00:11:50
Movements Periods Ancient Classical Arthurian Roma

Description

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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