{"product_id":"the-fantasy-of-family-elizabeth-thiel-9780415980357","title":"The Fantasy of Family: Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe myth of the Victorian family remains a pervasive influence within a contemporary Britain that perceives itself to be in social crisis. Nostalgic for a golden age of \"Victorian values\" in which visions of supportive, united families predominate, the common consciousness, exhorted by social and political discourse, continues to vaunt the \"traditional, natural\" family as the template by which all other family forms are gauged. Yet this fantasy of family, nurtured and augmented throughout the Victorian era, was essentially a construct that belied the realities of a nineteenth-century world in which orphanhood, fostering, and stepfamilies were endemic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFocusing primarily on British children's texts written by women and drawing extensively on socio-historic material, \u003cem\u003eThe Fantasy of Family\u003c\/em\u003e considers the paradoxes implicit to the perpetuation of the domestic ideal within the Victorian era and offers new perspectives on both nineteenth-century and contemporary society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Thiel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415980356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415980357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Elizabeth Thiel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48174836842751,"sku":"9780415980357","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9740907a-85eb-43fb-94b4-490bc91b8244.jpg?v=1771330850","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fantasy-of-family-elizabeth-thiel-9780415980357","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}