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Zusatztext "Well-researched and thorough, Ann Alston's The Family in English Children's Literature is an ambitious attempt to chart ideological assumptions about the family in the children's literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centures." --Elizabeth Gargano, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Informationen zum Autor Ann Alston lectures at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, with a focus in Welsh Children’s Literature and nineteenth-century constructions of the child. She received her Ph.D in Children’s Literature at Cardiff University, Wales, in 2005. Klappentext This book focuses on the ideological construction of the family in children's literature from Mrs Sherwood's Evangelical text of 1818 The History of the Fairchild Family to Jacqueline Wilson's recent social reality novels, interrogating the idea that portrayals of family in children's literature have changed dramtically, and suggesting instead that children's literature is remarkably conservative in its desire to promote the ideals of family to its readers. Zusammenfassung Focuses on the ideological construction of the family in children's literature from Mrs Sherwood's Evangelical text of 1818 "The History of the Fairchild Family" to Jacqueline Wilson's social reality novels, interrogating the idea that portrayals of family in children's literature have changed dramatically. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editor’s Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Section 1 Chapter One: History of Family The Growth of a Cherished Institution Chapter Two: 1818-1914 Depictions of the Nineteenth and Turn of the Century Family From a Good Beating to the Flight to Neverland Chapter Three: 1920-2003 Depictions of the Twentieth-Century Family From Just William to Harry Potter Section 2 Chapter Foure: There’s No Place like Home Home and Family in Children’s Literature Chapter Five: A Room of One’s Own? Spaces, Families and Power Chapter Six: Edible Fictions: Fictional Food The Family Meal in Children’s Literature Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index ...
