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Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden
A Children's Classic at 100
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden
A Children's Classic at 100
About this book
Frances Hodgson Burnett gained famed not only as an author of social fictions and romances but also for writing the immensely popular children's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy. She seemed an unlikely candidate to pen a quiet, realistic, and unsentimental paean to disagreeable children and the natural world, which has the power to heal them. But it is precisely these qualities that have garnered The Secret Garden both a continued audience and a central place in the canon of children's literature for a century.
In Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden: A Children's Classic at 100, some of the most respected scholars of children's literature consider Burnett's seminal work from modern critical perspectives. Contributors examine the works and authors that influenced Burnett, identify authors who have drawn on The Secret Garden in their writing, and situate the novel in historical and theoretical contexts.
These essays push beyond the themes that have tended to occupy the majority of academic scholars who have written about The Secret Garden to date. In doing so, they approach the text from theoretical perspectives that allow new light to illuminate old debates. Scholars and students of children's literature, women's literature, transcontinental literature, and the Victorian/Edwardian period will find in this collection refreshing new looks at a children's classic.
In Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden: A Children's Classic at 100, some of the most respected scholars of children's literature consider Burnett's seminal work from modern critical perspectives. Contributors examine the works and authors that influenced Burnett, identify authors who have drawn on The Secret Garden in their writing, and situate the novel in historical and theoretical contexts.
These essays push beyond the themes that have tended to occupy the majority of academic scholars who have written about The Secret Garden to date. In doing so, they approach the text from theoretical perspectives that allow new light to illuminate old debates. Scholars and students of children's literature, women's literature, transcontinental literature, and the Victorian/Edwardian period will find in this collection refreshing new looks at a children's classic.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Pre-Texts
- Chapter 1: Maiden, Mother, Mysteries: The Myth of Persephone in The Secret Garden
- Chapter 2: When Mary Met Cathy: Frances Hodgson Burnett in Brontƫ Country
- Part II: Theorizing and Historicizing The Secret Garden
- Chapter 3: Mothers of Misselthwaite: Mothering Work and Space in The Secret Garden
- Chapter 4: āA Real PersonāOnly Nicerā: The Robin as a Companion Species
- Chapter 5: Places of Transformation in The Secret Garden
- Chapter 6: Outing the Garden: Queerness and Queer Space in The Secret Garden
- Chapter 7: The Three Veils: Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in The Secret Garden
- Chapter 8: Healing National Manhood in The Secret Garden
- Part III: Talking Back to The Secret Garden
- Chapter 9: Burnettās Secret Spaces: Glimpses of Utopia
- Chapter 10: Not-So-Secret Gardens: Eroding Eden in Contemporary Childrenās Literature
- Part IV: Peritexts and Adaptations
- Chapter 11: Imag(in)ing the Garden: Illustratorsā Interpretations of Burnettās Classic Novel
- Chapter 12: Crippling Colin: Disability in Two Film Versions of The Secret Garden
- Epilogue: The Secret GardenāAbsence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
- About the Editors and Contributors