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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	PR878.C5 B47 1999		AVAILABLE

Author	Berry, Laura C., 1957-
Title	The child, the state, and the Victorian novel / Laura C. Berry.
OCLC	41548117
ISBN	0813919096 (alk. paper)
Publisher	Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1999.
Description	x, 199 pages ; 24 cm.
LC Subject heading/s	Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Characters -- Children.
	English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	Children in literature.
	Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Children -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
	Social problems in literature.
	State, The, in literature.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-194) and index.
Contents	Introduction: the rise of the child victim and the state of the novel -- Hideous progeny made clean: heredity and pedagogy in the new poor law writings of James Kay and in Oliver Twist -- In the bosom of the family: Dombey and Son and the wet-nursing debates of William Acton and C.H.F. Routh -- Tender tyranny: the 1839 Custody of Infants Act and custodial incarceration in Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Civilization and confession in midcentury representations of infanticide and in Adam Bede -- Conclusion: from pulpy infants to a nation of good animals.

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