Singley, Carol J. Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature.

Carol S. Singley’s Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature focuses on literary representations of adoption in selected canonical and non-canonical texts from the Puritan era to the early 20th century, to show the ways in which adoption as a trope or narrative event highlights the historical evolution of American nationhood, family ideology, identity, and citizenship. Singley interprets adoption broadly to refer to the “care of children by non-biological paren...