Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (eBook)

Eva König is Lecturer at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where she has taught courses on literary analysis and cultural theory. Her research interests include eighteenth-century literature, post-colonial literature, Marxist theory, gender theory, and psychoanalysis.

1. Introduction PART I: BASTARDS AND FOUNDLINGS IN PRE-IMAGINARY OSCILLATION 2. Moll Flanders and Fluid Identity 3. Tom Jones and Narrative (Il)legimitacy PART II: MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL: THE DELUDED HEIRESS AND THE IMAGINARY 4. The Coquette's Lesson: Haywood's Betsy Thoughtless 5. The Tragic Coquette: Inchbald's A Simple Story 6. Becoming a Benefactress: Burney's Cecilia 7. The Imaginist: Lennox's The Female Quixote 8. Jane Austen's Emma, the Arch-Imaginist PART III: DISPOSSESSED CHILDREN: THE SUBJECT OF THE SYMBOLIC 9. The Name of the Father: Burney's Evelina 10. The Law of the Father: Inchbald's A Simple Story 11. Doomed: Mary Hays's The Victim of Prejudice 12. Liberating Daughters: Charlotte Smith's Emmeline 13. The Gothic of Family Romance 14. Legitimacy in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto 15. Dis/Harmony in Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron 16. Avenged: Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest PART IV: THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED: RADCLIFFE'S MATRIARCHY 17. Escaped: Ann Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance 18. Sanctuary in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian PART V: THE ORPHAN IN MOURNING 19. Taking Farewell: Jane Austen's Persuasion 20. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index