The Family in English Children's Literature (Children's Literature and Culture)

175 Pages·2008·0.87 MB·English

by  Ann Alston

THE FAMILY IN
ENGLISH CHILDREN’S
L I T E R A T U R E
Children’s Literature and Culture The Case of Peter Rabbit
Jack Zipes, Series Editor Changing Conditions of Literature
for Children
Children’s Literature Comes of Age by Margaret Mackey
Toward a New Aesthetic
by Maria Nikolajeva The Feminine Subject in Children’s
Literature
Sparing the Child by Christine Wilkie-Stibbs
Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth
Literature Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction
About Nazism and the Holocaust by Robyn McCallum
by Hamida Bosmajian
Recycling Red Riding Hood
Rediscoveries in Children’s Literature by Sandra Beckett
by Suzanne Rahn
The Poetics of Childhood
Inventing the Child by Roni Natov
Culture, Ideology, and the Story of Childhood
by Joseph L. Zornado Voices of the Other
Children’s Literature and the Postcolonial
Regendering the School Story Context
Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys edited by Roderick McGillis
by Beverly Lyon Clark
Narrating Africa
ANecessary Fantasy? George Henty and the Fiction of Empire
The Heroic Figure in Children’s Popular by Mawuena Kossi Logan
Culture
edited by Dudley Jones and Tony Watkins Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and
Young Adults
edited by Naomi J. Miller
White Supremacy in Children’s Literature
Characterizations of African Americans,
Representing the Holocaust in Youth
1830–1900
Literature
by Donnarae MacCann
by Lydia Kokkola
Ways of Being Male
Translating for Children
Representing Masculinities in Children’s
by Riitta Oittinen
Literature and Film
by John Stephens
Beatrix Potter
Writing in Code
Retelling Stories, Framing Culture
by M. Daphne Kutzer
Traditional Story and Metanarratives in
Children’s Literature
Children’s Films
by John Stephens and Robyn McCallum
History, Ideology, Pedagogy, Theory
by Ian Wojcik-Andrews
Pinocchio Goes Postmodern
Perils of a Puppet in the United States
Utopian and Dystopian Writing for
by Richard Wunderlich and
Children and Young Adults
Thomas J. Morrissey
edited by Carrie Hintz and Elaine Ostry
Little Women and the Feminist Imagination Transcending Boundaries
Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays Writing for a Dual Audience of Children
edited by Janice M. Alberghene and and Adults
Beverly Lyon Clark edited by Sandra L. Beckett
The Presence of the Past The Making of the Modern Child
Memory, Heritage, and Childhood in Children’s Literature and Childhood in the
Postwar Britain Late Eighteenth Century
by Valerie Krips by Andrew O’Malley
How Picturebooks Work Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in
by Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott Mary Poppins
The Governess as Provocateur
Brown Gold by Georgia Grilli
Milestones of African American Children’s
Picture Books, 1845–2002 ACritical History of French Children’s
by Michelle H. Martin Literature
by Penny Brown
Russell Hoban/Forty Years
The Gothic in Children’s Literature
Essays on His Writing for Children
Haunting the Borders
by Alida Allison
edited by Anna Jackson, Karen Coats, and
Roderick McGillis
Apartheid and Racism in South African
Children’s Literature
Reading Victorian Schoolrooms
by Donnarae MacCann and
Childhood and Education in
Amadu Maddy
Nineteenth-Century Fiction
by Elizabeth Gargano
Empire’s Children
Empire and Imperialism in Classic British
Soon Come Home to This Island
Children’s Books West Indians in British Children’s Literature
by M. Daphne Kutzer by Karen Sands-O’Connor
Constructing the Canon of Children’s Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular
Literature Culture
Beyond Library Walls and Ivory Towers Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional
by Anne Lundin Child
by Annette Wannamaker
Youth of Darkest England
Working Class Children at the Heart of Into the Closet
Victorian Empire Cross-dressing and the Gendered Body in
by Troy Boone Children’s Literature
by Victoria Flanagan
Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre
Literature for Children and Adults Russian Children’s Literature and Culture
byMike Cadden edited by Marina Balina and
Larissa Rudova
Twice-Told Children’s Tales
The Outside Child In and Out of the Book
edited by Betty Greenway
by Christine Wilkie-Stibbs
Diana Wynne Jones
Representing Africa in Children’s Literature
The Fantastic Tradition and Children’s
Old and New Ways of Seeing
Literature
by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
by Farah Mendlesohn
The Fantasy of Family
Childhood and Children’s Books in Early
Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature
Modern Europe, 1550–1800
and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal
edited by Andrea Immel and Michael
by Liz Thiel
Witmore
From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood
Voracious Children Children’s Literature and the Construction of
Who Eats Whom in Children’s Literature Canadian Identity
by Carolyn Daniel by Elizabeth A. Galway
National Character in South African The Family in English Children’s
Children’s Literature Literature
by Elwyn Jenkins by Ann Alston

THE FAMILY IN
ENGLISH CHILDREN’S
L I T E R AT U R E
A N N A L S T O N
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Alston, Ann, 1978–
The family in English children’s literature / by Ann Alston.
p. cm. – (Children’s literature and culture ; 53)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Children’s stories, English–History and criticism. 2. Family in
literature. 3. Home in literature. I. Title.
PR830.C513A67 2008
820.9′355–dc22
2007040837
ISBN 0-203-92875-X Master e-book ISBN
ISBN10: 0–415–98885–3 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0–203–92875–X(ebk)
ISBN13: 978–0–415–98885–8 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978–0–203–92875–2 (ebk)
For the memory of my mother, Joan Margaret Alston,
and for the future of her grandsons, Sam, Joshua, James,
Thomas and Vasilis.

Contents
Series Editor’s Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 History of Family: The Growth of a Cherished
Institution 7
Chapter 2 1818–1914 Depictions of the Nineteenth and Turn
of the Century Family: From a Good Beating to the
Flight to Neverland 27
Chapter 3 1920–2003 Depictions of the Twentieth-Century
Family: From ‘Just William’ to ‘Harry Potter’ 47
Chapter4 There’s No Place Like Home: Home and Family in
Children’s Literature 69
Chapter 5 ARoom of One’s Own? Spaces, Families and Power 89
Chapter 6 Edible Fictions: Fictional Food – The Family Meal in
Children’s Literature 105
Conclusion 135
Notes 139
Bibliography 145
Index 155
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