{"product_id":"9780814254554","title":"Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this compelling interdisciplinary study of what has been called the \"century of illegitimacy,\" Lisa Zunshine seeks to uncover the multiplicity of cultural meanings of illegitimacy in the English Enlightenment. \u003cem\u003eBastards and Foundlings\u003c\/em\u003e pits the official legal views on illegitimacy against the actual everyday practices that frequently circumvented the law; it reconstructs the history of social institutions called upon to regulate illegitimacy, such as the London Foundling Hospital; and it examines a wide array of novels and plays written in response to the same concerns that informed the emergence and functioning of such institutions. By recreating the context of the national preoccupation with bas-tardy, with a special emphasis on the gender of the fictional bastard\/foundling, Zunshine offers new readings of \"canonical\" texts, such as Steele's \u003cem\u003eThe Conscious Lovers\u003c\/em\u003e, Defoe's \u003cem\u003eMoll Flanders\u003c\/em\u003e, Fielding's \u003cem\u003eTom Jone\u003c\/em\u003es, Moore's \u003cem\u003eThe Foundling\u003c\/em\u003e, Colman's \u003cem\u003eThe English Merchant\u003c\/em\u003e, Richardson's \u003cem\u003eClarissa\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSir Charles Grandison\u003c\/em\u003e, Burney's \u003cem\u003eEvelina\u003c\/em\u003e, Smith's \u003cem\u003eEmmeline\u003c\/em\u003e, Edgewort's \u003cem\u003eBelinda\u003c\/em\u003e, and Austen's \u003cem\u003eEmma\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as of less well-known works, such as Haywood's \u003cem\u003eThe Fortunate Foundlings\u003c\/em\u003e, Shebbeare's \u003cem\u003eThe Marriage Act\u003c\/em\u003e, Bennett's \u003cem\u003eThe Beggar Girl and Her Benefactor\u003c\/em\u003es, and Robinson's \u003cem\u003eThe Natural Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031218274544,"sku":"9780814254554","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814254554_p0.jpg?v=1763747164","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814254554","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}