A Hundred Years of The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett's Children's Classic Revisited

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.

About the author

Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich teaches English Literature and Culture at the University of Bonn.

Product details

• Authors: Marion Gymnich, Imke Lichterfeld
• Assisted by: Uwe Baumann u a (Editor), Marion Gymnich (Editor), Imk Lichterfeld (Editor), Imke Lichterfeld (Editor)
• Publisher: V&R unipress
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9783847100546
• ISBN: 978-3-8471-0054-6
• No. of pages: 189
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 245 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 458 g
• Illustrations: mit 3 Abbildungen
• Series: Representations & Reflections; Representations & Reflections 9; Representations & Reflections; Representations & Reflections 9
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies