Imagining adoption: essays on literature and culture

Introduction : Imagining adoption / Marianne Novy

Adoption and the "improvement of the estate" in Trollope and Craik / Tess O'Toole

Adoption in Silas Marner and Daniel Deronda / Marianne Novy

Outlaws, outcasts, and orphans : the historical imagination and Anne of Green Gables / Beverly Crockett

Redefining "real" motherhood : representations of adoptive mothers, 1900-1950 / Julie Berebitsky

From Charlotte to the outposts of empire : troping adoption / Beverly Lyon Clark

The immaculate deception : adoption in Albee's plays / Garry Leonard

"I am your mother ; she was a carrying case" : adoption, class, and sexual orientation in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are not the only fruit / Margot Gayle Backus

A junction of amends : Sandra McPherson's poetics of adoption / Jan VanStavern

Adoption, identity, and voice : Jackie Kay's inventions of self / Nancy K. Gish

Genealogy revised in Secrets and lies / Paris De Soto

Natural bonds, legal boundaries : modes of persuasion in adoption rhetoric / Judith Modell

"File it under 'L' for love child" : adoptive policies and practices in the Erdrich tetralogy / Jill R. Deans

Adoption as national fantasy in Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in heaven and Margaret Laurence's The diviners / Kristina Fagan

Should whites adopt African American children? One family's phenomenological response / Martha Satz

Incorporating the transnational adoptee / Claudia Castañeda.