Street Urchins, Sociopaths and Degenerates: Orphans of Late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction

by David Floyd

Orphans are ubiquitous in the literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and there have been countless critical studies that consider orphans' metaphoric implications and the manner in which they function as barometers of burgeoning social concerns. But the fin de si cle gothic orphan has been largely overlooked, if not denied outright. In Street Urchins, Sociopaths and Degenerates, David Floyd gives these characters their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783160101
• ISBN13: 9781783160105
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.6"