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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Ambivalent Attitude Toward The Orphan in The Early Victorian Novel
Abstract
dc:descriptionIn early Victorian fiction, orphans are seen as nurturing angels and as depraved beasts. This study analyzes why orphans are treated so ambivalently. It also explains how angelic waifs give serious-minded Victorians a way of contending with destructive change and moral breakdown and why depraved orphans served as scapegoats for authority figures.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Suchan, James Edward
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8127710
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/66347