Family in English Children's Literature

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.

• Series Editor’s ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction Section 1Chapter One: History of FamilyThe Growth of a Cherished InstitutionChapter Two: 1818-1914 Depictions of the Nineteenth and Turn of the Century FamilyFrom a Good Beating to the Flight to NeverlandChapter Three: 1920-2003 Depictions of the Twentieth-Century FamilyFrom Just William to Harry PotterSection 2Chapter Foure: There’s No Place like HomeHome and Family in Children’s LiteratureChapter Five: A Room of One’s Own?Spaces, Families and PowerChapter Six: Edible Fictions: Fictional FoodThe Family Meal in Children’s LiteratureConclusion Notes Bibliography Index

"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