Street Urchins, Sociopaths and Degenerates: Orphans of Late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction by David Floyd

Street Urchins, Sociopaths and Degenerates: Orphans of Late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction

David Floyd

272 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

informative reflective slow-paced

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Orphans are ubiquitous in the literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and there have been countless critical studies that consider orphans’ metaphoric implications and the manner in which they function as barometers of bur...

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