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