Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna : a children's classic at 100 /
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| Imprint: | Jackson [Mississippi] : University Press of Mississippi, [2014] |
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| 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 |
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
