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The Fantasy of Family: Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal

The Fantasy of Family: Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal

Thiel, Elizabeth

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Series: Children's Literature and Culture

Literary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0415899370
ISBN13: 9780415899376
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 12 2011
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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