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  1. Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna
    a children's classic at 100
    Contributor: Harde, Roxanne (Publisher); Kokkola, Lydia (Publisher); Brouwers, Anke (Publisher)
    Published: 2014; © 2014
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Contributor: Harde, Roxanne (Publisher); Kokkola, Lydia (Publisher); Brouwers, Anke (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781628461329; 9781626740723
    Series: Children's Literature Association Series
    Subjects: Orphans in literature; Aunts in literature; Conduct of life in literature; Cheerfulness in literature
    Other subjects: Porter, Eleanor H. (1868-1920): Pollyanna; Porter, Eleanor H. (1868-1920): Pollyanna
    Scope: 1 online resource (290 pages)
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  2. Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna
    A Children's Classic at 100
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

    A thorough examination of the context and impact of the irrepressibly optimistic literary darling more

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    A thorough examination of the context and impact of the irrepressibly optimistic literary darling

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781628461329
    Series: Children's Literature Association Series
    Children's Literature Association Ser
    Subjects: Cheerfulness in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (290 p)
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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

    "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

    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

    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

    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

    9. Pollyanna: Intersectionalities of the Child, the Region, and the Nation