The Fantasy of Family: Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal

Abstract

INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE Redefining the Past CHAPTER TWO Snatched From Seed-plot of Degeneracy: The rescue of the destitute child in tales of street arab life CHAPTER THREE Forever Cursed: Stepmothers, otherness and the reinscription 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 stories CHAPTER FIVE Mother, Ally, Friend - or Foe? : The dependable female author as one of the family CONCLUSION Into the Future: The enduring potency of the nineteenth-century domestic ideal APPENDIX LIST OF WORKS CITED NOTES INDEX

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