1st Edition
Regendering the School Story Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys
By Beverly Lyon Clark
Copyright 1996
306 Pages
by
Routledge
306 Pages
by
Routledge
306 Pages
by
Routledge
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In 18th through 20th-century British and American literature, school stories always play out the power relationships between adult and child. They also play out gender relationships, especially when females are excluded, although most histories of the genre ignore the unusual novels that probe the gendering of school stories. When the occasional man wrote about girls schools-as Charles Lamb and... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Before Tom Brown; Chapter 2 Anxious Proxies and Independent Girls, Charles Lamb; Chapter 3 The First Tom Brown, DorothyKilner; Chapter 4 Telling Tales about Telling Tales, E. J.May; Chapter 5 At Midcentury, Mary MarthaSherwood; Part 2 During the Heyday of the Canonical Story; Chapter 6 Crossing Gender with Race, Edward Everett Hale; Chapter 7 Crossing Gender with Ethnicity, Elizabeth Eiloart; Chapter 8 Sensationalizing the School Story, Ellen Wood; Chapter 9 Domesticating the School Story, Louisa May Alcott; Chapter 10 Engendering the School Story, Julia A. Mathews; Part 3 In the Twentieth Century; Chapter 11 Policing the Borders, Satirizing the State, H. G. Wells; Chapter 12 Approaching High Seriousness, D. Wynne Willson;
Biography
Beverly Lyon Clark
"An important addition to children's literature criticism and should be acquired by all libraries collecting in that area." -- Choice
