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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2008.
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| Series: | Children's literature and culture.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203935514 0203935519 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |