Research Catalog

Title

Regendering the school story : sassy sissies and tattling tomboys / Beverly Lyon Clark.

Author

Clark, Beverly Lyon.

Publication

New York : Garland Pub., 1996.

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Details

Description

viii, 297 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Children's literature and culture ; v. 3. Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1060

Uniform Title

• Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1060.
• Garland reference library of social science. Children's literature and culture ; v. 3.

Subjects

• Children in literature
• Children > Books and reading
• Sex role in literature
• Children's stories, English > History and criticism
• School children in literature
• Feminism and literature
• Children's stories, American > History and criticism
• Education in literature
• Gender identity in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-292) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction: Redressing the School Story, Crossgendering a Genre -- Ch. 2. Anxious Proxies and Independent Girls: Charles Lamb and Other Early Men -- Ch. 3. The First Tom Brown: Dorothy Kilner and Other Early Women -- Ch. 4. Telling Tales about Telling Tales: E. J. May and Other Talebearers -- Ch. 5. At Midcentury: Mary Martha Sherwood and Other Transitional Women -- Ch. 6. Crossing Gender with Race: Edward Everett Hale and Other U.S. Writers -- Ch. 7. Crossing Gender with Ethnicity: Elizabeth Eiloart and Other British Writers -- Ch. 8. Sensationalizing the School Story: Ellen Wood -- Ch. 9. Domesticating the School Story: Louisa May Alcott -- Ch. 10. Engendering the School Story: Julia A. Mathews -- Ch. 11. Policing the Borders, Satirizing the State: H. G. Wells and Other Female Impersonators -- Ch. 12. Approaching High Seriousness: D. Wynne Willson and Other Recent Women.

ISBN

0815321163 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

96019804

OCLC

• 34721912
• ocm34721912

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries