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The fantasy of family : nineteenth-century children's literature and the myth of the domestic ideal
- Title
- The fantasy of family : nineteenth-century children's literature and the myth of the domestic ideal / Elizabeth Thiel.
- Author
- Thiel, Elizabeth.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 199 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Children's literature and culture
- Subject
- Families in literature
- Children's stories, English > History and criticism
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Home in literature
- Domestic relations in literature
- Social problems in literature
- Values in literature
- Idealism in literature
- Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-192) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-6093
- ISBN
- 9780415980357 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0415980356 (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007019503
- OCLC
- 129952183
- Author
- Thiel, Elizabeth.
- Title
- The fantasy of family : nineteenth-century children's literature and the myth of the domestic ideal / Elizabeth Thiel.
- Imprint
- New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Series
- Children's literature and culture
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-192) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-6093