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Rereading Orphanhood makes a useful contribution to ongoing scholarly and popular debates regarding the family, identity, kinship, connection and inheritance, often engaging with such questions through the diverse perspectives that the orphan figure seems naturally to invite: postcolonialism, gender studies, critical race studies and children's literary studies.--Elly McCausland, University of Oslo ""Dickens Quarterly"" Rereading Orphanhood provides a fascinating, fresh look at the way the orphan figure challenges conventional ideas of culture, family, development, law, inheritance, community, class, gender, and narrative. This collection is theoretically astute and usefully varied, and will reward anyone interested in family dynamics in the literature of the nineteenth century.--Talia Schaffer, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY

"Rereading Orphanhood makes a useful contribution to ongoing scholarly and popular debates regarding the family, identity, kinship, connection and inheritance, often engaging with such questions through the diverse perspectives that the orphan figure seems naturally to invite: postcolonialism, gender studies, critical race studies and children's literary studies.--Elly McCausland, University of Oslo ""Dickens Quarterly"" Rereading Orphanhood provides a fascinating, fresh look at the way the orphan figure challenges conventional ideas of culture, family, development, law, inheritance, community, class, gender, and narrative. This collection is theoretically astute and usefully varied, and will reward anyone interested in family dynamics in the literature of the nineteenth century.--Talia Schaffer, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY"

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Dr Diane Warren is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at University of Portsmouth. She is the author of Djuna Barnes' Consuming Fictions, (Ashgate, 2008). Professor Laura Peters is based at University of Roehampton. She is a well-published author including Dickens and Race (MUP, 2013) and Orphan Texts: Victorian Orphans, Culture and Empire (MUP, 2000).

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