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

by ElizabethThiel (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $151.51

  Focusing primarily on British children's texts written by women and drawing extensively on socio-historic material, this work considers the paradoxes implicit to the perpetuation of the domestic ideal within the Victorian era and offers fresh perspectives on both nineteenth-century and contemporary society.