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Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden: A Children's Classic at 100 (Children's Literature Association Centennial Studies)
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Jackie C. Horne (Contributor) Joe Sutliff Sanders (Contributor)
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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.
About the Author
Jackie C. Horne is a former children's book editor and has taught courses as an assistant professor at the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College. She is the co-editor of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows: A Children's Classic at 100 (Scarecrow, 2010) and author of History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature (2011). Joe Sutliff Sanders is assistant professor of English at Kansas State University, where he teaches children's literature. He is the author of Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story.
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- Contributor: Jackie C. Horne
- Imprint: Scarecrow Press
- ISBN13: 9780810881877
- Number of Pages: 312
- Packaged Dimensions: 150x228x25mm
- Packaged Weight: 558
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Scarecrow Press
- Release Date: 2011-07-01
- Series: Children's Literature Association Centennial Studies
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Jackie C. Horne is a former children's book editor and has taught courses as an assistant professor at the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College. She is the co-editor of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows: A Children's Classic at 100 (Scarecrow, 2010) and author of History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature (2011). Joe Sutliff Sanders is assistant professor of English at Kansas State University, where he teaches children's literature. He is the author of Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story.
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