{"product_id":"bastards-and-foundlings-lisa-zunshine-9780814254554","title":"Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England","description":"In this compelling interdisciplinary study of what has been called the \"century of illegitimacy,\" Lisa Zunshine seeks to uncover the multiplicity of cultural meanings of illegitimacy in the English Enlightenment. \u003ci\u003eBastards and Foundlings\u003c\/i\u003e pits the official legal views on illegitimacy against the actual everyday practices that frequently circumvented the law; it reconstructs the history of social institutions called upon to regulate illegitimacy, such as the London Foundling Hospital; and it examines a wide array of novels and plays written in response to the same concerns that informed the emergence and functioning of such institutions. By recreating the context of the national preoccupation with bastardy, with a special emphasis on the gender of the fictional bastard\/foundling, Zunshine offers new readings of \"canonical\" texts, such as Steele's \u003ci\u003eThe Conscious Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e, Defoe's \u003ci\u003eMoll Flanders\u003c\/i\u003e, Fielding's \u003ci\u003eTom Jone\u003c\/i\u003es, Moore's \u003ci\u003eThe Foundling\u003c\/i\u003e, Colman's \u003ci\u003eThe English Merchant\u003c\/i\u003e, Richardson's \u003ci\u003eClarissa\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSir Charles Grandison\u003c\/i\u003e, Burney's \u003ci\u003eEvelina\u003c\/i\u003e, Smith's \u003ci\u003eEmmeline\u003c\/i\u003e, Edgewort's \u003ci\u003eBelinda\u003c\/i\u003e, and Austen's \u003ci\u003eEmma\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as of less well-known works, such as Haywood's \u003ci\u003eThe Fortunate Foundlings\u003c\/i\u003e, Shebbeare's \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Act\u003c\/i\u003e, Bennett's \u003ci\u003eThe Beggar Girl and Her Benefactor\u003c\/i\u003es, and Robinson's \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa Zunshine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814254551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814254554\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Lisa Zunshine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48241107599615,"sku":"9780814254554","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5144db20-0e7a-460e-a33b-14de599ba788.jpg?v=1772652762","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bastards-and-foundlings-lisa-zunshine-9780814254554","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}