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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].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman), 1868-1920, author.
- Series:
- Children's literature association series.
- Children's Literature Association Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orphans in literature.
- Aunts in literature.
- Conduct of life in literature.
- Cheerfulness in literature.
- Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman), 1868-1920. Pollyanna.
- Porter, Eleanor H.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A thorough examination of the context and impact of the irrepressibly optimistic literary darling
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62846-133-0
- 1-62674-072-0
- OCLC:
- 878301197
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