How Long to Read The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature

How Long Does it Take to Read The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 4 minutes to read The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature by Cheryl L. Nixon

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body. Examining novels by authors such as Eliza Haywood, Tobias Smollett, and Elizabeth Inchbald, and referencing never-before analyzed case records, Nixon reconstructs the narratives of real orphans in the British parliamentary, equity, and common law courts and compares them to the narratives of fictional orphans. The orphan's uncertain economic, familial, and bodily status creates opportunities to "plot" his or her future according to new ideologies of the social individual. Nixon demonstrates that the orphan encourages both fact and fiction to re-imagine structures of estate (property and inheritance), blood (familial origins and marriage), and body (gender and class mobility). Whereas studies of the orphan typically emphasize the poor urban foundling, Nixon focuses on the orphaned heir or heiress and his or her need to be situated in a domestic space. Arguing that the eighteenth century constructs the "valued" orphan, Nixon shows how the wealthy orphan became associated with new understandings of the individual. New archival research encompassing print and manuscript records from Parliament, Chancery, Exchequer, and King's Bench demonstrate the law's interest in the propertied orphan. The novel uses this figure to question the formulaic structures of narrative sub-genres such as the picaresque and romance and ultimately encourage the hybridization of such plots. As Nixon traces the orphan's contribution to the developing novel and developing ideology of the individual, she shows how the orphan creates factual and fictional understandings of class, family, and gender.

How long is The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature?

The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature by Cheryl L. Nixon is 302 pages long, and a total of 76,104 words.

This makes it 102% the length of the average book. It also has 93% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 55 minutes to read The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature aloud.

What Reading Level is The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature?

The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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