The fantasy of family : nineteenth-century children's literature and the myth of the domestic ideal / Elizabeth Thiel.
The myth of the Victorian family remains a pervasive influence within a contemporary Britain that perceives itself to be in social crisis. Nostalgic for a golden age of Victorian values in which visions of supportive, united families predominate, the common consciousness, exhorted by social and poli...
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New York :
Routledge,
2008.
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Series: | Children's literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Redefining the past
- Snatched from "the seed-plot" of degeneracy : the "rescue" of the destitute child in tales of street-arab life
- Forever cursed : stepmothers, "otherness," and the reinscription of myth in transnormative family narratives
- "Uncles are one thing ... [but] aunts are always nasty!" Relational failures and the discourse of gender bias in foster family stories
- Mother, ally, friend, or foe? The "dependable" female author as one of the family
- Into the future : the enduring potency of the nineteenth-century ideal.