Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture ISBN: 9780472024940 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Language & Literature ; Sociology;
Imagining Adoption looks at representations of adoption in an array of literary genres by diverse authors including George Eliot, Edward Albee, and Barbara Kingsolver as well as ordinary adoptive mothers and adoptee activists, exploring what these writings share and what they debate. Marianne Novy is Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Pittsburgh.