Orphans : childhood alienation and the idea of the self in Rousseau, Wordsworth and Mary Shelley

This thesis explores representations of the self in Rousseau's Émile (1762). Wordsworth's The Prelude (1805) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). It uses the idea of 'the orphan' not in a strictly literal sense, but in order to explore representations of the self that str...

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Main Author: Jones, Jonathan D.
Published: University of Warwick 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397517