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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Carol J Singley |
ISBN: | 9780199779390 0199779392 9780199985777 0199985774 |
OCLC Number: | 867157206 |
Description: | 254 Seiten |
Contents: | INTRODUCTION; INDEX |
Responsibility: | Carol J. Singley. |
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This book succeeds admirably...through deep historical contextualization and close literary analysis of theme and form. * New England Quarterly * Wide ranging, clearly written, and well informed, Adopting America provides detailed readings of canonical and little known adoption texts against the backdrop of Americans' changing attitudes toward child rearing and nation from Puritan times through the First World War. Carol Singley's new book is a valuable contribution to adoption studies. * Claudia Nelson, Texas A&M University * Adopting America presents an excellent and thoroughly researched overview of a timely topic-the relation of familial constructs to forms of adoption in the literature of the United States. With readings of works by writers ranging from Ben Franklin to Edith Wharton, Singley has crafted a book that will attract scholars of American literature and culture for years to come. * Shirley Samuels, Cornell University * Singley has produced an impressive piece of scholarship that shows the centrality of adoption issues to American literature. Adopting America should appeal not only to scholars of literature, but also to anyone interested in adoption in relation to history, sociology, psychology, or their own lives. * Marianne Novy, University of Pittsburgh * Singley's very timely and original re-reading of many classic texts proves once more that we students of the canon never exhaust it. Such rich books as The Scarlet Letter and Our Nig, Little Women, Summer, and others spring to new life under Singley's careful (and historically informed) analysis. An excellent addition to the burgeoning scholarship on childhood and American literature. * Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina * Read more...

