Regendering the school story : sassy sissies and tattling tomboys /
Clark, Beverly Lyon.
New York : Garland Pub.,
1996.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-292) and index.
Introduction : redressing the school story, crossgendering a genre. I. Before Tom Brown. Anxious proxies and independent girls : Charles Lamb and other early men -- The first Tom Brown : Dorothy Kilner and other early women -- Telling tales about telling tales : E.J. May and other talebearers -- At midcentury : Mary Martha Sherwood and other transnational women. II. During the heyday of the canonical story. Crossing gender with race : Edward Everett Hale and other U.S. writers -- Crossing gender with identity : Elizabeth Eiloart and other British writers -- Sensationalizing the school story : Ellen Wood -- Domesticating the school story : Louisa May Alcott -- Engendering the school story : Julia A. Matthews. III. In the twentieth century. Policing the borders, satirizing the state : H.G. Wells and other female impersonators -- Approaching high seriousness : D. Wynne Willson and other recent women.
Children's stories, English
Children's stories, American
Education in literature.
School children in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Children
Feminism and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Children in literature.
Schools in literature.