Imagined Orphans Familles pauvres, protection de l’enfance et citoyenneté contestée à Londres

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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 discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children’s experiences…

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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 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. 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 stereotypically dire situation of families living in poverty. While reformers’ motivations seem well-intentioned, she shows how their methods solidified the public’s anti-poor 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.

Langue
en
Version
Couverture rigide
Date de sortie initiale
16 février 2006
Nombre de pages
252
Illustrations
Non

Traduction

Titre original
Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London

Personnes impliquées

Auteur principal

Lydia Murdoch

Editeur principal

Rutgers University Press

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Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
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Hauteur de l’emballage
19 mm
Hauteur du produit
19 mm
Largeur d’emballage
159 mm
Largeur du produit
159 mm
Livre d‘étude
Non
Longueur d’emballage
229 mm
Longueur du produit
229 mm
Poids de l’emballage
499 g
Police de caractères extra large
Non
Édition
New titre

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9780813537221

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Hommes et société

Histoire

Questions sociales et éthiques

Services sociaux

Histoire sociale et Culturelle

Pauvreté

Protection de l’enfance et aide à la jeunesse

Périodes

Histoire postmoderne

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Langue

Anglais

Période

env. 1800-1910

Type de livre

Hardcover

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