Haphazard Families: Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of Modern Adoption by Eric C. Walker

Haphazard Families: Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of Modern Adoption

Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture

Eric C. Walker

246 pages • first pub 2024 (view editions)

nonfiction gender literary race sociology
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There are no provisions for adoption in English common law, and adoption wasn't legally formalized in England and Wales until 1926. But a century earlier, untimely adoptions navigated the new exceptionalism of childhood in Romanticism. In Haphazar...

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