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Imagined Orphans - Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London (Hardcover)
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Imagined Orphans - Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London (Hardcover)
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With his dirty, tattered clothes and hollowed-out face, the image
of Oliver Twist is the enduring symbol of the young indigent
spilling out of the orphanages and haunting the streets of
late-nineteenth-century London. He is the victim of two evils: an
aristocratic ruling class and, more directly, neglectful parents.
Although poor children were often portrayed as real-life Oliver
Twists - either orphaned or abandoned by unworthy parents - they,
in fact, frequently maintained contact and were eventually reunited
with their families. In ""Imagined Orphans"", Lydia Murdoch focuses
on this discrepancy between the representation and the reality of
children's experiences within welfare institutions - a discrepancy
that she argues stems from conflicts over middle- and working-class
notions of citizenship. Reformers' efforts to depict poor children
as either orphaned or endangered by abusive or ""no-good"" parents
fed upon the poor's increasing exclusion from the Victorian social
body. Reformers used the public's growing distrust and pitiless
attitude toward poor adults to increase charity and state aid to
the children. With a critical eye to social issues of the period,
Murdoch urges readers to reconsider the stereotypically dire
situation of families living in poverty. While reformers'
motivations seem well-intentioned, she shows how their methods
solidified the public's anti-poor sentiment and justified a
minimalist welfare state that engendered a cycle of poverty. As
they worked to fashion model citizens, reformers' efforts to
protect and care for children took on an increasingly imperial cast
that would continue into the twentieth century.
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