Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama

by Marianne Novy

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Reading Adoption explores the ways in which novels and plays portray adoption, probing the cultural fictions that these literary representations have perpetuated. Through careful readings of works by Sophocles, Shakespeare, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Barbara Kingsolver, Edward Albee and others, Marianne Novy reveals how fiction has contributed to general perceptions of adoptive parents, adoptees, and birth parents. She observes how these works...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:047203264X

ISBN13:9780472032648

Release Date:August 2007

Publisher:University of Michigan Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:0.92 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Adoption Books & Reading Classics Criticism & Theory Europe General History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods Parenting & Relationships Wales

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