Introduction: Thérèse Levasseur's lost children -- The burden of romantic childhood -- National children : the madness of William Austin -- Natural children : Jane Austen and adoption -- Abandoned children : Mary Shelley, Rousseau, and Frankenstein...
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Introduction: Thérèse Levasseur's lost children -- The burden of romantic childhood -- National children : the madness of William Austin -- Natural children : Jane Austen and adoption -- Abandoned children : Mary Shelley, Rousseau, and Frankenstein -- Unexplained children : Basil Caroline Montagu and the Wordsworth circle -- Found children: Emma Isola and Charles and Mary Lamb -- Conclusion: Untimely adoption. "Examines literary and historical adoptions associated with Queen Caroline, Jane Austen, the Wordsworths, Mary Shelley, the Lambs, Letitia Landon, and others to demonstrate how Romantic constructions of childhood supply foundational structures of modern adoptee subjectivity"--
