Little strangers [electronic resource] : portrayals of adoption and foster care in America, 1850-1929 / Claudia Nelson

Author	Nelson, Claudia
Title	Little strangers [electronic resource] : portrayals of adoption and foster care in America, 1850-1929 / Claudia Nelson
Imprint	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003
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Descript	212 p

CONTENT

The 1850s and their echoes : two case studies -- Money talks : the displaced child, 1860-1885 -- Melodrama and the displaced child, 1886-1906 -- Metaphor and the displaced child, 1886-1906 -- Adoption and women, 1907-1918 -- Adoption up to date : the rhetoric of mass individuality, 1919-1929

Adoption -- United States -- History Orphans -- United States -- History Adoption in literature Electronic books.