Description
(Short description)
Approaches to Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic The Secret Garden
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Frances Hodgson Burnett published numerous works for an adult readership, but she is mainly remembered today for three novels written for children: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911). This volume is dedicated to The Secret Garden. The articles address a wide range of issues, including the representation of the garden in Burnett s novel in the context of cultural history; the relationship between the concept of nature and female identity; the idea of therapeutic places; the notion of redemptive children in The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy; the concept of male identity; constructions of Otherness and the redefinition of Englishness; film and anime versions of Burnett s classic; Noel Streatfeild s The Painted Garden as a rewriting of The Secret Garden; attitudes towards food in children s classics and Burnett s novel in the context of Edwardian girlhood fiction and the tradition of the female novel of development.
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Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich lehrt Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Bonn.
Dr. Imke Lichterfeld hat in Bonn und Aberdeen, Schottland, Anglistik und Geschichte studiert, ein Jahr in York, Goßbritannien, als Lehrerin gearbeitet und war als Mitarbeiterin an der Universiät Bonn tätig, wo sie 2010 promoviert wurde. Zurzeit ist sie Studiengangsmanagerin am Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie.
