Street Urchins, Sociopaths and Degenerates

Autorentext

David Floyd is Assistant Professor of English at Charleston Southern University. His research interests are Victorian literature, Gothic theory, nineteenth-century psychological theory, and postcolonialism. He has presented papers on Dickens, Stoker, Stevenson, Lovecraft, and Arthurian literature in North America and the United Kingdom.

Klappentext

Taking examples from Gothic, island adventure, imperial, and children's literature, this book addresses the remarkable metaphorical disparity between, and cultural implications of, orphans in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth British fiction and in more recent instances.

Inhalt

1 Introduction 2 Renfield's 'agonized confusion' 3 Rebellious orphans 4 The orphaning island 5 Orphans of empire 6 Orphans in haunted Arcadia 7 Conclusion