Imagining adoption : essays on literature and culture / edited by Marianne Novy.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Imagining adoption / Marianne Novy
- Adoption and the "improvement of the estate" in Trollope and Craik / Tess O'Toole
- Adoption in Silas Marner and Daniel Deronda / Marianne Novy
- Outlaws, outcasts, and orphans : the historical imagination and Anne of Green Gables / Beverly Crockett
- Redefining "real" motherhood : representations of adoptive mothers, 1900-1950 / Julie Berebitsky
- From Charlotte to the outposts of empire : troping adoption / Beverly Lyon Clark
- The immaculate deception : adoption in Albee's plays / Garry Leonard
- "I am your mother ; she was a carrying case" : adoption, class, and sexual orientation in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are not the only fruit / Margot Gayle Backus
- A junction of amends : Sandra McPherson's poetics of adoption / Jan VanStavern
- Adoption, identity, and voice : Jackie Kay's inventions of self / Nancy K. Gish
- Genealogy revised in Secrets and lies / Paris De Soto
- Natural bonds, legal boundaries : modes of persuasion in adoption rhetoric / Judith Modell
- "File it under 'L' for love child" : adoptive policies and practices in the Erdrich tetralogy / Jill R. Deans
- Adoption as national fantasy in Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in heaven and Margaret Laurence's The diviners / Kristina Fagan
- Should whites adopt African American children? One family's phenomenological response / Martha Satz
- Incorporating the transnational adoptee / Claudia Castañeda.