The Fantasy of Family

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

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Elizabeth Thiel

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Children's Literature and Culture

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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 political discourse, continues to vaunt the "traditional, natural" family as the template by which all other family forms are gauged. Yet this fantasy of family, nurtured and augmented throughout the Victorian era, was essentially a construct that belied the realities of a nineteenth-century world in which orphanhood, fostering, and stepfamilies were endemic. Focusing primarily on British children's texts written by women and drawing extensively on socio-historic material, The Fantasy of Family considers the paradoxes implicit to the perpetuation of the domestic ideal within the Victorian era and offers new perspectives on both nineteenth-century and contemporary society.

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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'.

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July 12th, 2011

Author

Elizabeth Thiel

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

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8 Halftones, black and white

Pages

216

Series

Children's Literature and Culture

Dimensions

152x229x12

ISBN-13

9780415899376

Product ID

10829966

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