Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna : a children's classic at 100 / / edited by Roxanne Harde and Lydia Kokkola ; contributors, Anke Brouwers [and fourteen others]
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Porter Eleanor H (Eleanor Hodgman), <1868-1920, >
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Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna : a children's classic at 100 / / edited by Roxanne Harde and Lydia Kokkola ; contributors, Anke Brouwers [and fourteen others]
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| Pubblicazione: | Jackson, Mississippi : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.52 |
| Soggetto topico: | Orphans in literature |
| Aunts in literature | |
| Conduct of life in literature | |
| Cheerfulness in literature | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | HardeRoxanne |
| KokkolaLydia <1967-> | |
| BrouwersAnke | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Glad to be 100: The Making of a Children's Classic; The Pollyanna Story: From Porter to Parcheesi; Visualizing and Placing Pollyanna; Pollyanna: Critical Reception and Scholarship; Pollyanna: Critical Reception and Scholarship; The Chapters; Notes; Works Cited; Part I: Pollyanna's World; 1. "Then just being glad isn't pro-fi-ta-ble?": Mourning, Class, and Benevolence in Pollyanna; "Practically nothing": Mourning and an Orphan's Worth; "The little attic room": The Site of Mourning |
| "I love different folks": Benevolence as the Work of Mourning"I can be glad I've had my legs": Pollyanna's Work; Notes; Works Cited; 2. "Aggressive femininity": The Ambiguous Heteronormativity of Pollyanna; Aggressive Femininity: On Productive Ambiguity; The Ambiguity of the Patriarchal Glad Game; The Economics of Romance; Feminine Aggression: Destabilizing Gender; Notes; Works Cited; 3. "Matter out of place": Dirt, Disorder, and Ecophobia; Urbanization and Cleanliness; Dirt and Disorder; Matter out of Place; Flies, Other Unwanted Creatures, and Little Boys; Order in the Garden; Ecophobia | |
| Twenty-first-century Aunt PollysConclusion; Notes; Works Cited; 4. "Ice-cream Sundays": Food and the Liminal Spaces of Class in Pollyanna; "I don't see how she can help liking ice-cream": Food, Memory, and Familial Relationships; "No matter where ye be": Pollyanna's Eating Spaces; "The pertater on t'other side of the plate": Immigrant Relations to Food; "Beans and fishballs": Negotiating the Appropriate Appetite; Conclusion; Works Cited; 5. At Home in Nature: Negotiating Ecofeminist Politics in Heidi and Pollyanna; Notes; Works Cited; Part II: Ideological Pollyanna | |
| 6. The "veritable bugle-call": An Examination of Pollyanna through the Lens of Twentieth-Century ProtestantismA Sentimental Reflection; Protestantism at the "Turn of the Century": The Social Gospel; Doing God's Work at Home and Abroad: The Missionary Motif; "[I]f 'twasn't for the rejoicing texts": The Biblical Passages; Coda: The Film's Patriotic Christianity; Conclusion; Note; Works Cited; 7. Pollyanna, the Power of Gladness, and the Philosophy of Pragmatism; James's Will to Believe and Porter's Glad Game; Beyond the Glad Game: The Power of Pollyanna's Knowing; The Dark Side of the Glad Game | |
| NotesWorks Cited; 8. When Pollyanna Did Not Grow Up: Girlhood and the Innocent Nation; Domestic Novels as Political Allegories; Innocence and Home Spaces: Pollyanna as Allegory; Replacing Marital Bliss with Childhood Innocence; The Nostalgic Nation of Children's Literature; Childhood and Nation Formation: Foreign Affairs; Childhood and Nation Formation: The National Sphere; Cleansing the Home with Gladness: Pollyanna's Unconscious Evangelism; Imagining the Nation through the Good Girl; Home Again: Restoring Hope, Prolonging Childhood, and Protecting the Innocence; Works Cited | |
| 9. Pollyanna: Intersectionalities of the Child, the Region, and the Nation | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A thorough examination of the context and impact of the irrepressibly optimistic literary darling |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna |
| ISBN: | 1-62846-133-0 |
| 1-62674-072-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827886103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Children's literature association series.