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Author:

Clark, Beverly Lyon.

Title:

Regendering the school story : sassy sissies and tattling tomboys / Beverly Lyon Clark.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2001, c1996

Description:

viii, 297 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Children's stories, English--History and criticism.
Children's stories, American--History and criticism.
Education in literature.
School children in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Children--Books and reading.
Feminism and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Children in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-292) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : redressing the school story, crossgendering a genre. I. Before Tom Brown. Anxious proxies and independent girls : Charles Lamb and other early men -- The first Tom Brown : Dorothy Kilner and other early women -- Telling tales about telling tales : E.J. May and other talebearers -- At midcentury : Mary Martha Sherwood and other transnational women. II. During the heyday of the canonical story. Crossing gender with race : Edward Everett Hale and other U.S. writers -- Crossing gender with identity : Elizabeth Eiloart and other British writers -- Sensationalizing the school story : Ellen Wood -- Domesticating the school story : Louisa May Alcott -- Engendering the school story : Julia A. Matthews. III. In the twentieth century. Policing the borders, satirizing the state : H.G. Wells and other female impersonators -- Approaching high seriousness : D. Wynne Willson and other recent women.

Series:

Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1060 Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1060

ISBN:

9780415928915 (pbk.)
0415928915 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45795226

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

UWAX953 -- Waldorf University - Luise V. Hanson Library (Forest City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella) — 813.5409 CL 2, re