Regendering the school story
Subtitle: sassy sissies and tattling tomboys
By: Beverly Lyon Clark.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Series: Children's literature and culture -- v. 3. -- Garland reference library of social science -- v. 1060; Garland reference library of social science -- v. 1060.; Garland reference library of social science -- v. 3.
Publisher: Routledge; Garland Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Children's stories, English -- History and criticism.; Children's stories, American -- History and criticism.; Education in literature.; School children in literature.; Gender identity in literature.; Children -- Books and reading.; Feminism and literature.; Sex role in literature.; Children in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : redressing the school story, crossgendering a genre. I. Before Tom Brown. Anxious proxies and independent girls : Charles Lamb and other early men; title: The first Tom Brown : Dorothy Kilner and other early women; title: Telling tales about telling tales : E.J. May and other talebearers; title: 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; title: Crossing gender with identity : Elizabeth Eiloart and other British writers; title: Sensationalizing the school story : Ellen Wood; title: Domesticating the school story : Louisa May Alcott; title: 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; title: Approaching high seriousness : D. Wynne Willson and other recent women.