Disciplining girls
Subtitle: understanding the origins of the classic orphan girl story
By: Joe Sutliff Sanders
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781421403182
Subjects: Sentimentalism in literature; Children's stories, American; Orphans in literature; History and criticism; Girls in literature; Children's stories, Canadian; Canadian fiction; American fiction; Child rearing in literature
Other titles: Origins of the classic orphan girl story; Orphan girl story
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The wide, wide world and the rules of sentimental engagement; title: The hidden hand and momentary individualism; title: Eight cousins and what girls are made for; title: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and the threat of affective discipline; title: A little princess and the accidental power of stories; title: Anne of Green Gables and the return of affective discipline; title: The Secret Garden and the rajah's master; title: Pollyanna and anxious individualism; title: Emily of New Moon and the private girl; title: Spinning sympathy; title: Girls' novels and the end of mothering; title: Conclusion: affection, manipulations, pleasure, abuse.