{"product_id":"the-family-in-english-childrens-literature-9780415699617","title":"The Family in English Childrens Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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 Englis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Well-researched and thorough, Ann Alston's \u003cem\u003eThe Family in English Children's Literature\u003c\/em\u003e is an ambitious attempt to chart ideological assumptions about the family in the children's literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centures.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e--Elizabeth Gargano, University of North Carolina at Charlotte\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Editor’s Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: History of Family\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Growth of a Cherished Institution\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: 1818-1914 Depictions of the Nineteenth and Turn of the Century Family\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a Good Beating to the Flight to Neverland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: 1920-2003 Depictions of the Twentieth-Century Family\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Just William to Harry Potter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Foure: There’s No Place like Home\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHome and Family in Children’s Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: A Room of One’s Own?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpaces, Families and Power\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Edible Fictions: Fictional Food\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Family Meal in Children’s Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes Bibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767525146967,"sku":"9780415699617","price":43.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415699617.jpg?v=1758713623","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-family-in-english-childrens-literature-9780415699617","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}