Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna : a children's classic at 100 /

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Imprint:Jackson [Mississippi] : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
Description:x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Children's literature association series
Children's literature association series.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10116462
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Other authors / contributors:Harde, Roxanne, editor.
Kokkola, Lydia, 1967- editor.
ISBN:9781628461329
1628461322
9781628461336
1628461330
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:Online version: Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014 9781628461336
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Glad to be 100: The Making of a Children's Classic
  • Part I. Pollyanna's World
  • 1. "Then just being glad isn't pro-fi-ta-ble?": Mourning, Class, and Benevolence in Pollyanna
  • 2. "Aggressive femininity": The Ambiguous Heteronormativity of Pollyanna
  • 3. "Matter out of place": Dirt, Disorder, and Ecophobia
  • 4. "Ice-cream Sundays": Food and the Liminal Spaces of Class in Pollyanna
  • 5. At Home in Nature: Negotiating Ecofeminist Politics in Heidi and Pollyanna
  • Part II. Ideological Pollyanna
  • 6. The "veritable bugle-call": An Examination of Pollyanna through the Lens of Twentieth-Century Protestantism
  • 7. Pollyanna, the Power of Gladness, and the Philosophy of Pragmatism
  • 8. When Pollyanna Did Not Grow Up: Girlhood and the Innocent Nation
  • 9. Pollyanna: Intersectionalities of the Child, the Region, and the Nation
  • Part III. Adapted Pollyanna
  • 10. The Gospel of Good Cheer: Innocence, Spiritual Healing, and Patriotism in Mary Pickford's Pollyanna
  • 11. "Almost a golden glow around it": The Filmic Nostalgia of Walt Disney's Pollyanna
  • 12. Pollyanna: Transformation in the Japanese Context
  • 13. Pollyanna in Turkey: Translating a Transnational Icon
  • Afterword. Lessons from Pollyanna
  • Contributors
  • Index