Series Editor’s Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1
Chapter One: History of Family
The Growth of a Cherished Institution
Chapter Two: 1818-1914 Depictions of the Nineteenth and Turn of the Century Family
From a Good Beating to the Flight to Neverland
Chapter Three: 1920-2003 Depictions of the Twentieth-Century Family
From Just William to Harry Potter
Section 2
Chapter Foure: There’s No Place like Home
Home and Family in Children’s Literature
Chapter Five: A Room of One’s Own?
Spaces, Families and Power
Chapter Six: Edible Fictions: Fictional Food
The Family Meal in Children’s Literature
Conclusion
Notes Bibliography
Index
Biography
Ann Alston lectures at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, with a focus in Welsh Children’s Literature and nineteenth-century constructions of the child. She received her Ph.D in Children’s Literature at Cardiff University, Wales, in 2005.
"Well-researched and thorough, Ann Alston's The Family in English Children's Literature is an ambitious attempt to chart ideological assumptions about the family in the children's literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centures."
--Elizabeth Gargano, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
