The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett

In "the World of Actual Literature"

Thomas Recchio

• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781785273636
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785273650
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism for Women Authors
• Index: Literature

Frances Hodgson Burnett is remembered today as the author of the children's classic The Secret Garden, but in her lifetime she had a long and successful career as a novelist, dramatist and writer of children's stories. Of high literary quality, her novels covered a range of genres, including industrial novels, American-themed social novels, historical novels, transatlantic novels and post–World War I novels. The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett reads her novels in the context of the changing literary field in England and the United States in the years between the death of George Eliot in 1880 through to the Great War. Read as a body of literary fiction in relation to Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and T. S. Eliot among others, and read in the context of literary realism, historical fiction, the sensation novel and so on, Burnett's novels constitute an important thread that chronicles the changing contexts and forms of English and American fiction from the end of the Victorian period to the Jazz Age of the 1920s.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• Chapter One LEARNING FROM ELIZABETH GASKELL
• Chapter Two WRITING AS AN AMERICAN: THE PORTRAIT OF A WASHINGTON LADY
• Chapter Three HISTORICAL DREAMSCAPES AND THE VICISSITUDES OF CLASS: FROM A LADY OF QUALITY TO THE METHODS OF LADY WALDERHURST
• Chapter Four TRANSATLANTIC ALLIANCES IN THE SHUTTLE AND T. TEMBAROM
• Chapter Five AFTER THE GREAT WAR: EMERGING FROM THE WASTELAND IN THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE OF COOMBE AND ROBIN
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX