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  1. The fantasy of family
    nineteenth century children's literature and the myth of the domestic ideal
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY [u.a.]

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780415980357; 0415980356; 9780415899376; 0415899370
    RVK Categories: HL 1401
    Series: Children's literature and culture
    Subjects: Familienbeziehung <Motiv>; Roman; Englisch; Familie <Motiv>; Kinderliteratur; Kind <Motiv>
    Scope: XIII, 199 S., Ill., 24 cm
  2. Jessica's first prayer and Froggy's little brother
    Contributor: Thiel, Elizabeth (Hrsg.)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

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    Contributor: Thiel, Elizabeth (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780230360549
    Edition: Critical ed.
    Series: Classics of children's literature
    Other subjects: Children's stories, English--History and criticism.; English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.; Poverty in literature.; Children's stories, English.
    Scope: XXXVI, 184 S., Ill.
  3. <<The>> fantasy of family
    nineteenth century children's literature and the myth of the domestic ideal
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 9780415980357; 0415980356; 9780415899376; 0415899370
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    Series: Children's literature and culture
    Subjects: Englisch; Roman; Kind <Motiv>; Familienbeziehung <Motiv>; Geschichte 1800-1900; Englisch; Kinderliteratur; Familie <Motiv>; Geschichte 1839-1888
    Scope: XIII, 199 S. : Ill., 24 cm
  4. The fantasy of family
    nineteenth-century children's literature and the myth of the domestic ideal
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York [u.a.]

    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... more

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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

     

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  5. The fantasy of family
    nineteenth-century children's literature and the myth of the domestic ideal
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY [u.a.]

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0415899370; 9780415899376
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    9780415899376
    RVK Categories: HL 1091
    Edition: 1. issued in paperback
    Series: Children's literature and culture ; 51
    Subjects: Family in literature; Children's stories, English; English fiction; Home in literature; Domestic relations in literature; Social problems in literature; Values in literature; Idealism in literature; Literature and society
    Scope: XIII, 199 S., Ill., 23 cm
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    Originally published: 2008. - Includes bibliographical references and index

  6. Jessica's first prayer and Froggy's little brother
    Contributor: Thiel, Elizabeth (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

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    Contributor: Thiel, Elizabeth (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780230360549
    Edition: Critical ed.
    Series: Classics of children's literature
    Subjects: Children's stories, English--History and criticism; English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Poverty in literature; Children's stories, English
    Scope: XXXVI, 184 S. : Ill.
  7. <<The>> fantasy of family
    nineteenth-century children's literature and the myth of the domestic ideal
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 9780415899376; 0415899370
    Edition: 1. iss. in paperback
    Series: Children's literature and culture ; 51
    Subjects: Families in literature.; Children's stories, English--History and criticism.; English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.; Home in literature.; Domestic relations in literature.
    Scope: XIII, 199 S., Ill., 23 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. 187 - 192

  8. The fantasy of family
    nineteenth-century children's literature and the myth of the domestic ideal
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York [u.a.]

    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... more

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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

     

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  9. The fantasy of family
    nineteenth-century children's literature and the myth of the domestic ideal
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York [u.a.]

    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... more

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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.

     

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  10. The fantasy of family
    nineteenth-century children's literature and the myth of the domestic ideal
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York

    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,... more

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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 nineteen

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780415980357
    Series: Children's literature and culture ; 51
    Subjects: Domestic relations in literature; Social problems in literature; Values in literature; Idealism in literature; Literature and society; English fiction; Children's stories, English; Families in literature; Home in literature
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xiii, 199 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

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    Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Redefining the Past; Chapter Two Snatched from "The Seed-plot" of Degeneracy: The "rescue" of the destitute child in tales of street-arab life; Chapter Three Forever Cursed: Stepmothers, "otherness," and the re-inscription of myth in transnormative family narratives; Chapter Four "Uncles are One Thing … [but] Aunts are Always Nasty!" Relational failures and the discourse of gender bias in foster family tales

    Chapter Five Mother, Ally, Friend or Foe? The "dependable" female author as one of the familyConclusion: Into the Future: The Enduring Potency of the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Ideal; Appendix; Notes; Works Cited; Index;

  11. The Fantasy of Family
    Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Taylor and Francis, Hoboken

    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,... more

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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

     

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780415980357
    Series: Children's Literature and Culture
    Scope: Online-Ressource (217 p)
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    THE FANTASY OF FAMILY Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1Redefining the Past; Part One: Theory and The Family; Part Two: Transnormative Families-Causes and Effects; Chapter 2Snatched From "The Seed-plot" of Degeneracy: The "rescue" of the destitute child in tales of street-arab life; Drunk and Disorderly: The negligent mother in Hesba Stretton's Jessica's First Prayer (1867), Jessica's Mother (1867), and Lost Gip (1873)

    "Motherless, Fatherless and Friendless": Portraits of the orphan in Brenda's Nothing to Nobody (1873) and Froggy's Little Brother (1875)Chapter 3Forever Cursed: Stepmothers, "otherness," and the reinscription of myth in transnormative family narratives; The Precarious Nature of Home Sweet Home: Lucy Lane Clifford's "The New Mother" (1882); A Subtly Subversive Approach: Harriet Childe-Pemberton's Birdie: A Tale of Child-Life (1888); Discordant Voices: Filial jealousy and authorial "compromise" in Caroline Birley's We Are Seven (1880)

    The Folly of Voluntary Slavery: Charlotte M. Yonge's The Young Step-mother or A Catalogue of Mistakes (1861)Chapter 4"Uncles are one thing . . . [but] aunts are always nasty!" Relational failures and the discourse of gender bias in foster family stories; Negative Influences and Familial Discord:Mary Louisa Molesworth's Rosy (1882); Usurping the Mother: Harriet Childe-Pemberton's "All My Doing; or, Red Riding Hood Over Again" (1882); The Archetype of the "Good, Kind Uncle": Catherine Sinclair's Holiday House: A Book for the Young (1839)

    In Sinclair's Footsteps: Brenda's "Lotty and Georgie" books and the man with the yellow moustacheChapter 5Mother, Ally, Friend, or Foe? The "dependable" female author as one of the family; Part One:Women'sWork; Part Two: A Multiplicity of Voices; Conclusion Into the Future: The enduring potency of the nineteenth-century domestic ideal; Appendix; Notes; Works Cited; Index