Ann Alston

The Family in English Children's Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 153mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780415699617
• ISBN-10: 0415699614
• Artikelnr.: 34226980

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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