Children's Literature and the Rise of 'Mind Cure': Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siècle

ISBN-13: 9781108823777 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 270 str.

Missouri) Stiles Anne (Saint Louis University

Opis

Examination into how the new religious movement known as New Thought or “mind cure” influenced fin-de-siècle Anglophone children's fiction.

Recenzje

'Stiles advances a worthwhile discussion of New Thought's relationship with nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction, combining close reading with religious, historical, and biographical context.' Fiona McCulloch, Victorian Studies

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The Inner Child in Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy and Sara Crewe; 2. Fauntleroy's Ghost: New Thought in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw; 3. Rewriting the Rest Cure in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden; 4. Sunshine and Shadow: New Thought in Anne of Green Gables; 5. Millennial Motherhood in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland Trilogy; Epilogue. The Cinematic Afterlife of New Thought Fiction.