Anne Stiles

Children's Literature and the Rise of 'Mind Cure' (eBook, PDF)

Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siecle

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108910729
• Artikelnr.: 66183416

Autorenporträt

Anne Stiles is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Medical Humanities at Saint Louis University, Missouri. She is the author of Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 2011) and the editor of Neurology and Literature, 1866-1920 (2007). She also co-edited two volumes in part of the Progress in Brain Research series (2013). Her work has been supported by long-term grants from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (2016-2017); the Huntington Library (2009-2010); and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006-2007).

Inhaltsangabe

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.