Elizabeth Thiel

The Fantasy of Family

Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal

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Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 321g
• ISBN-13: 9780415899376
• ISBN-10: 0415899370
• Artikelnr.: 33762470

Autorenporträt

Liz Thiel is a lecturer in Children's Literature at Roehampton University. A former journalist, her research interests lie in both historical and contemporary texts for children. Forthcoming publications include a study of the life and works of Victorian writer 'Brenda'.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
Redefining the Past
CHAPTER TWO
Snatched From "The Seed-plot" of Degeneracy: The "rescue" of the destitute
child in tales of street arab life
CHAPTER THREE
Forever Cursed: Stepmothers, "otherness" and the reinscription of myth in
transnormative family narratives
CHAPTER FOUR
"Uncles are one thing...[but] aunts are always nasty!": Relational failures
and the discourse of gender bias in foster family stories
CHAPTER FIVE
Mother, Ally, Friend - or Foe? : The "dependable" female author as one of
the family
CONCLUSION
Into the Future: The enduring potency of the nineteenth-century domestic
ideal
APPENDIX
LIST OF WORKS CITED
NOTES
INDEX