LEADER 04834nam 22005895 450 001 9910484913503321 005 20200703114229.0 010 $a3-030-04855-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-04855-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000007823539 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5746935 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-04855-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007823539 100 $a20190403d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFamily Life in Britain, 1650?1910$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Carol Beardmore, Cara Dobbing, Steven King 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (295 pages) 311 $a3-030-04854-3 327 $aChapter One: Introduction; Carol Beardmore, Cara Dobbing, Steven King -- Part One: Economies of the Family -- Chapter Two: Family Fortunes: Marriage, Inheritance and Economic Challenges in Scotland, c.1660-1800; Regina Poertner -- Chapter Three: Victorian Professions: the Galvanising (and Shaping) Force of Death on Families; Kim Price -- Chapter Four: ?The Widows and Orphans of Servants are Dying?: The Conflict of Family in the Design and Application of nineteenth-Century Civil Servant Pensions; Kathleen McIlvenna -- Part Two: Family Processes -- Chapter Five: Step Motherhood in the Nineteenth Century: Elinor Packe and Continuing Family Cohesiveness, 1900-1911; Geoff Monks -- Chapter Six: Balancing the Family: Edward Wrench, Baslow G.P. c.1862?1890; Carol Beardmore -- Chapter Seven: The Family and Insanity: The Experience of the Garlands Asylum, 1862-1910; Cara Dobbing -- Chapter Eight: Conceptualising the ?Perfect? Family in Late-Nineteenth-Century Philanthropic Institutions; Steven Taylor -- Part Three: Reconstituting the Family -- Chapter Nine: Negotiating the Blending of Families: Tension and Affection between Step-Parents and Children in Early Modern England, 1470-1640; Maria Cannon -- Chapter Ten: Family Beyond the Household: Constituting and Reconstituting as Kin; Iain Riddell -- Chapter Eleven: Configuring and Re-Configuring Families in Nineteenth-Century England; Steven King. 330 $aThis book explores the ways that families were formed and re-formed, and held together and fractured, in Britain from the sixteenth to twentieth century. The chapters build upon the argument, developed in the 1990s and 2000s, that the nuclear family form, the bedrock of understandings of the structure and function of family and kinship units, provides a wholly inadequate lens through which to view the British family. Instead the volume's contributors point to families and households with porous boundaries, an endless capacity to reconstitute themselves, and an essential fluidity to both the form of families, and the family and kinship relationships that stood in the background. This book offers a re-reading,and reconsideration of the existing pillars of family history in Britain. It examines areas such as: Scottish kinship patterns, work patterns of kin in Post Office families, stepfamily relations, the role of family in managing lunatic patients, and the fluidity associated with a range of professional families in the nineteenth century. Chapter 8 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com. 606 $aSocial history 606 $aGreat Britain?History 606 $aEurope?History?1492- 606 $aSocial groups 606 $aFamily 606 $aSocial History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/724000 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717020 606 $aHistory of Modern Europe$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717080 606 $aSociology of Family, Youth and Aging$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22080 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aGreat Britain?History. 615 0$aEurope?History?1492-. 615 0$aSocial groups. 615 0$aFamily. 615 14$aSocial History. 615 24$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 615 24$aHistory of Modern Europe. 615 24$aSociology of Family, Youth and Aging. 676 $a306.850941 702 $aBeardmore$b Carol$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aDobbing$b Cara$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aKing$b Steven$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484913503321 996 $aFamily Life in Britain, 1650?1910$92847864 997 $aUNINA