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Disciplining girls : understanding the origins of the classic orphan girl story
- Title
- Disciplining girls : understanding the origins of the classic orphan girl story / Joe Sutliff Sanders.
- Author
- Sanders, Joe Sutliff.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 225 p.; 24 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Origins of the classic orphan girl story
- Orphan girl story
- Subject
- Girls in literature
- Children's stories, American > History and criticism
- Children's stories, Canadian > History and criticism
- Orphans in literature
- Child rearing in literature
- Sentimentalism in literature
- American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Canadian fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Canadian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-215) and index.
- Contents
- The wide, wide world and the rules of sentimental engagement -- The hidden hand and momentary individualism -- Eight cousins and what girls are made for -- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and the threat of affective discipline -- A little princess and the accidental power of stories -- Anne of Green Gables and the return of affective discipline -- The Secret Garden and the rajah's master -- Pollyanna and anxious individualism -- Emily of New Moon and the private girl -- Spinning sympathy -- Girls' novels and the end of mothering -- Conclusion: affection, manipulations, pleasure, abuse.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-1737
- ISBN
- 9781421403182 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1421403188 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011009969
- OCLC
- YBP 2011009969
- Author
- Sanders, Joe Sutliff.
- Title
- Disciplining girls : understanding the origins of the classic orphan girl story / Joe Sutliff Sanders.
- Imprint
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-215) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-1737