Abandoned and adopted in a new world
Problems of patrimony: Benjamin Franklin and Ann Sargent Gage
Adoption averted in The scarlet letter
Plotting adoption: dependence and independence
Child saving, nation building: The wide, wide world and The lamplighter
Servitude and homelessness: Harriet Wilson's Our nig
The limits of nurture: Louisa May Alcott's adoption fiction
Charity begins and ends at home: Edith Wharton's Summer.
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Adopting America : childhood, kinship, and national identity in literature by Carol J. Singley. ISBN 9780199779390. Published by Oxford University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
