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1 online resource |
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Children's literature association series |
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Children's Literature Association series
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Glad to be 100: The Making of a Children's Classic; The Pollyanna Story: From Porter to Parcheesi; Visualizing and Placing Pollyanna; Pollyanna: Critical Reception and Scholarship; Pollyanna: Critical Reception and Scholarship; The Chapters; Notes; Works Cited; Part I: Pollyanna's World; 1. "Then just being glad isn't pro-fi-ta-ble?": Mourning, Class, and Benevolence in Pollyanna; "Practically nothing": Mourning and an Orphan's Worth; "The little attic room": The Site of Mourning |
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"I love different folks": Benevolence as the Work of Mourning"I can be glad I've had my legs": Pollyanna's Work; Notes; Works Cited; 2. "Aggressive femininity": The Ambiguous Heteronormativity of Pollyanna; Aggressive Femininity: On Productive Ambiguity; The Ambiguity of the Patriarchal Glad Game; The Economics of Romance; Feminine Aggression: Destabilizing Gender; Notes; Works Cited; 3. "Matter out of place": Dirt, Disorder, and Ecophobia; Urbanization and Cleanliness; Dirt and Disorder; Matter out of Place; Flies, Other Unwanted Creatures, and Little Boys; Order in the Garden; Ecophobia |
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Twenty-first-century Aunt PollysConclusion; Notes; Works Cited; 4. "Ice-cream Sundays": Food and the Liminal Spaces of Class in Pollyanna; "I don't see how she can help liking ice-cream": Food, Memory, and Familial Relationships; "No matter where ye be": Pollyanna's Eating Spaces; "The pertater on t'other side of the plate": Immigrant Relations to Food; "Beans and fishballs": Negotiating the Appropriate Appetite; Conclusion; Works Cited; 5. At Home in Nature: Negotiating Ecofeminist Politics in Heidi and Pollyanna; Notes; Works Cited; Part II: Ideological Pollyanna |
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6. The "veritable bugle-call": An Examination of Pollyanna through the Lens of Twentieth-Century ProtestantismA Sentimental Reflection; Protestantism at the "Turn of the Century": The Social Gospel; Doing God's Work at Home and Abroad: The Missionary Motif; "[I]f 'twasn't for the rejoicing texts": The Biblical Passages; Coda: The Film's Patriotic Christianity; Conclusion; Note; Works Cited; 7. Pollyanna, the Power of Gladness, and the Philosophy of Pragmatism; James's Will to Believe and Porter's Glad Game; Beyond the Glad Game: The Power of Pollyanna's Knowing; The Dark Side of the Glad Game |
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NotesWorks Cited; 8. When Pollyanna Did Not Grow Up: Girlhood and the Innocent Nation; Domestic Novels as Political Allegories; Innocence and Home Spaces: Pollyanna as Allegory; Replacing Marital Bliss with Childhood Innocence; The Nostalgic Nation of Children's Literature; Childhood and Nation Formation: Foreign Affairs; Childhood and Nation Formation: The National Sphere; Cleansing the Home with Gladness: Pollyanna's Unconscious Evangelism; Imagining the Nation through the Good Girl; Home Again: Restoring Hope, Prolonging Childhood, and Protecting the Innocence; Works Cited |
| Summary |
Appearing first as a weekly serial in The Christian Herald, Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna was first published in book form in 1913. This popular story of an impoverished orphan girl who travels from America's western frontier to live with her wealthy maternal Aunt Polly in the fictional east coast town of Beldingsville went through forty-seven printings in seven years and remains in print today in its original version, as well as in various translations and adaptations. The story's enduring appeal lies in Pollyanna's sunny personality and in her glad game, her playful attempt to |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
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Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman), 1868-1920. Pollyanna
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| SUBJECT |
Pollyanna (Porter, Eleanor H.) fast |
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Orphans in literature.
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Aunts in literature.
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Conduct of life in literature.
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Cheerfulness in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Aunts in literature
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Cheerfulness in literature
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Conduct of life in literature
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Orphans in literature
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Harde, Roxanne, editor
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Kokkola, Lydia, 1967- editor.
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| LC no. |
2014016589 |
| ISBN |
9781628461336 |
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1628461330 |
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9781626740723 |
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1626740720 |
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9781496813114 |
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1496813111 |
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9781626743342 |
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1626743347 |
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