Carol J. Singley

Adopting America : childhood, kinship, and national identity in literature

INTRODUCTION 1. Abandoned and Adopted in a New World 2. Problems of Patrimony: Benjamin Franklin and Ann Sargent Gage 3. Adoption Averted in The Scarlet Letter 4. Plotting Adoption: Dependence and Independence 5. Child Saving, Nation Building: The Wide, Wide World and The Lamplighter 6. Servitude and Homelessness: Harriet Wilsons Our Nig 7. The Limits of Nurture: Louisa May Alcotts Adoption Fiction 8. Charity Begins and Ends at Home: Edith Whartons Summer INDEX