The family in English children's literature

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    • Alston, Ann

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The family in English children's literature

Ann Alston

(Children's literature and culture / Jack Zipes, series editor)

Routledge, 2011

  • : pbk

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"First issued in paperback 2011"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-153) and index

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内容説明

From the trials of families experiencing divorce, as in Anne Fine's Madame Doubtfire, to the childcare problems highlighted in Jacqueline Wilson's Tracy Beaker, it might seem that the traditional family and the ideals that accompany it have long vanished. However, in The Family in English Children's Literature, Ann Alston argues that this is far from the case. She suggests that despite the tales of family woe portrayed in children's literature, the desire for the happy, contented nuclear family remains inherent within the ideological subtexts of children's literature. Using 1818 as a starting point, Alston investigates families in children's literature at their most intimate, focusing on how they share their spaces, their ideals of home, and even on what they eat for dinner. What emerges from Alston's study are not so much the contrasts that exist between periods, but rather the startling similarities of the ideology of family intrinsic to children's literature. The Family in English Children's Literature sheds light on who maintains control, who behaves, and how significant children's literature is in shaping our ideas about what makes a family "good."

目次

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

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