First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
Redefining the Past
CHAPTER TWO
Snatched From "The Seed-plot" of Degeneracy: The "rescue" of the destitute child in tales of street arab life
CHAPTER THREE
Forever Cursed: Stepmothers, "otherness" and the reinscription of myth in transnormative family narratives
CHAPTER FOUR
"Uncles are one thing...[but] aunts are always nasty!": Relational failures and the discourse of gender bias in foster family stories
CHAPTER FIVE
Mother, Ally, Friend - or Foe? : The "dependable" female author as one of the family
CONCLUSION
Into the Future: The enduring potency of the nineteenth-century domestic ideal
APPENDIX
LIST OF WORKS CITED
NOTES
INDEX
