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Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden
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Description for Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden
Hardcover. Editor(s): Horne, Jackie C.; Sanders, Joe Sutliff. Series: Children's Literature Association Centennial Studies. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
Frances Hodgson Burnett gained famed not only as an author of social fictions and romances but also for writing the immensely popular children's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy. She seemed an unlikely candidate to pen a quiet, realistic, and unsentimental paean to disagreeable children and the natural world, which has the power to heal them. But it is precisely these qualities that have garnered The Secret Garden both a continued audience and a central place in the canon of children's literature for a century. In Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden: A Children's Classic at 100, some of the most ... Read more
Frances Hodgson Burnett gained famed not only as an author of social fictions and romances but also for writing the immensely popular children's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy. She seemed an unlikely candidate to pen a quiet, realistic, and unsentimental paean to disagreeable children and the natural world, which has the power to heal them. But it is precisely these qualities that have garnered The Secret Garden both a continued audience and a central place in the canon of children's literature for a century. In Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden: A Children's Classic at 100, some of the most ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Children's Literature Association Centennial Studies
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810881877
SKU
V9780810881877
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99-15
About
Jackie C. Horne is a former children's book editor and has taught courses as an assistant professor at the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College. She is the co-editor of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows: A Children's Classic at 100 (Scarecrow, 2010) and author of History and the Construction of the Child in Early ... Read more
Reviews for Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden
A collection of essays on a favorite children’s novel, Horne and Sanders’s work applies incisive critical tools to the re-evaluation of a classic. The compilation covers standard feminist themes—gendered behavior, mothering, edenic locale—as well as ecofeminist concerns for vulnerable species and the salutary effects of nature on the injured spirit. Essays contribute effective paradigms for discussion, particularly the ... Read more