Abstract

ABSTRACT: This conversation with Emily Hipchen and Eric Walker previews his forthcoming book, Haphazard Families: Romanticism, Nation, and the Pre-history of Modern Adoption , topics ranging among adoption history, archives, Austen's family and fiction, standpoint theory and embodiment, the London Foundling Hospital, childhood exceptionalism and Romantic subjectivity, Mary Shelley's long quarrel with Rousseau, family abolitionism, Ireland and adoption history, and a royal scandal with an adopted child.

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