In Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows: A Children's Classic at 100, editors Jackie C. Horne and Donna R. White have assembled a collection of essays that look at the book in terms of class, gender and nationality, as well as its construction...
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In Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows: A Children's Classic at 100, editors Jackie C. Horne and Donna R. White have assembled a collection of essays that look at the book in terms of class, gender and nationality, as well as its construction of heteronormative masculinity, the very English novel's appeal to Chinese readers, and the meaning of a text in which animals can be human-like, pets, servants, and even food
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I COMPETING DISCOURSES; Chapter 1. Deus ex Natura or Nonstick Pan?: Competing Discourses in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows; Chapter 2. Techne, Technology, and Disenchantment in The Wind in the Willows; Chapter 3. "Up [and Down and Back and Forth] We Go!": Dialogic and Carnivalesque Qualities in The Wind in the Willows; Chapter 4. It's a Mole-Eat-Hare World: The River Bank, the School, and the Colony; Chapter 5. A Contemporary Psychological Understanding of Mr. Toad and His Relationships in The Wind in the Willows
Part II REPRESENTATIONS OF THE EDWARDIAN AGEChapter 6. "Animal-Etiquette" and Edwardian Manners in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows; Chapter 7. Locating Englishness within the Commodity Culture of the Early Twentieth Century in The Wind in the Willows; Chapter 8. Animal Boys, Aspiring Aesthetes, and Differing Masculinities: Aestheticism Revealed in The Wind in the Willows; Part III BEYOND THE TEXT; Chapter 9. The Wind Blows to the East: On Chinese Translations of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
Chapter 10. The Pursuit of Pleasure in The Wind in the Willows and Disney's The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. ToadIndex; About the Contributors
