Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture

This collection of 15 essays on adoption in literature and in contemporary culture approaches the subject from a different perspective – and therefore sheds a different light on it – than most of the adoption literature out there. The essays analyze adoption as depicted in a range of works, including nineteenth century novels, contemporary fiction, poetry, children’s literature, and film. They also examine writings of “home children,”adoptive mothers, newsletters, and others.