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Umfang: 1 online resource : , 24 b&w illustrations

ISBN: 9780813541020

Serie: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies

Inhalt: With his dirty, tattered clothes and hollowed-out face, Oliver Twist is the enduring symbol of the young indigent spilling out of orphanages and haunting the streets of late-nineteenth-century London. Although poor children were often portrayed as real-life Oliver Twists—either orphaned or abandoned by unworthy parents—they in fact frequently maintained contact and were eventually reunited with their families. In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on this discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children’s experiences within welfare institutions—a discrepancy that she argues stems from conflicts over middle- and working-class notions of citizenship that arose in the 1870s and persisted until the First World War. Reformers’ efforts to depict poor children as either orphaned or endangered by abusive or “no-good” parents fed upon the poor’s increasing exclusion from the Victorian social body. Reformers used the public’s growing distrust and pitiless attitude toward poor adults to increase charity and state aid to the children. With a critical eye to social issues of the period, Murdoch urges readers to reconsider the complex situations of families living in poverty. While reformers’ motivations seem well intentioned, she shows how their methods solidified the public’s antipoor sentiment and justified a minimalist welfare state that engendered a cycle of poverty. As they worked to fashion model citizens, reformers’ efforts to protect and care for children took on an increasingly imperial cast that would continue into the twentieth century.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , Introduction -- , 1. "A Little Waif of London, Rescued from the Streets ": Melodrama and Popular Representations of Poor Children -- , 2. From Barrack Schools to Family Cottages: Creating Domestic Space and Civic Identity for Poor Children -- , 3. The Parents of "Nobody's Children": Family Backgrounds and the Causes of Poverty -- , 4. "That Most Delicate of All Questions in an Englishman's Mind": The Rights of Parents and Their Continued Contact with Institutionalized Children -- , 5. Training "Street Arabs" into British Citizens: Making Artisans and Members of Empire -- , 6. "Their Charge and Ours": Changing Notions of Child Welfare and Citizenship -- , Conclusion -- , NOTES -- , BIBLIOGRAPHY -- , INDEX -- , ABOUT THE AUTHOR , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.36019/9780813541020

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813541020

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813541020

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource

ISBN: 9780813538235 , 0813538238 , 9780813541020 , 0813541026 , 0813537223 , 9780813537221

Serie: Rutgers series in childhood studies

Inhalt: With his dirty, tattered clothes and hollowed-out face, the image of Oliver Twist is the enduring symbol of the young indigent spilling out of the orphanages and haunting the streets of late-nineteenth-century London. He is the victim of two evils: an aristocratic ruling class and, more directly, neglectful parents. Although poor children were often portrayed as real-life Oliver Twists-either orphaned or abandoned by unworthy parents-they, in fact, frequently maintained contact and were eventually reunited with their families. In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on this disc

Anmerkung: "This electronic book contains the following additional features not available in the print version: Links to external informational resources, 6 additional images (and 1 color replacement of print image)."--Copyright and Permissions , Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-242) and index , "A little waif of London, rescued from the streets": melodrama and popular representations of poor children -- From barrack schools to family cottages: creating domestic space and civic identity for poor children -- The parents of "nobody's children": family backgrounds and the causes of poverty -- "That most delicate of all questions in an Englishman's mind": the rights of parents and their continued contact with institutionalized children -- Training "Street Arabs" into British citizens: making artisans and members of empire -- "Their charge and ours": changing notions of child welfare and citizenship.

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Murdoch, Lydia Imagined Orphans : Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, ©2006 ISBN 9780813537221

Sprache: Englisch

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