The fantasy of family : nineteenth-century children's literature and the myth of the domestic ideal / Elizabeth Thiel.

By: Thiel, Elizabeth [aut]Language: English Series: Children's literature and culture ; 27Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2008Description: xiii, 199 p. ill. 24 cmISBN: 9780415899376; 9780415980357; 0415980356Subject(s): Familjen i litteraturen | Hemmet i litteraturen | Den andre i litteraturen | Sociala missförhållanden i litteraturen | Ideologi och litteratur | Barnlitteratur | 1800-taletDDC classification: 820.9355 LOC classification: PR878.C513Other classification: G.096z Familjen Online resources: Table of contents only
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-192) and index.

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.



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