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Author:

Griswold, Jerome.

Title:

Audacious kids : the classic American children's story / Jerry Griswold.

Edition:

Revised edition.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Children's stories, American--History and criticism.
Children--Books and reading--United States.
Children--Books and reading.
Children's stories, American.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-326) and index.

Contents:

Part One: Oedipal Patterns -- There's No Place but Home: The Wizard of Oz -- The Long Parricidal Dream: Adventures of Huckleberry Fill -- Spinster Aunt, Sugar Daddy, and Child-Woman: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm -- Part Two: Manuals of Republicanism -- Motherland, Fatherland, or Oedipal Politics: Little Lord Fauntleroy -- Ur of the Ur-Stories: Tarzan of the Apes -- Imposters, Succession, and Faux Histories: The Prince and the Pauper -- Part Three: The Theater of Feelings -- Remorse and Regrets: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Bosom Enemies: Little Women -- Bread and Circuses: Toby Tyler -- Part Four: The Gospel of Optimism -- Sunny Land, Angry Waters: Hans Brinker -- Positive Thinking: The Secret Garden -- Radical Innocence: Pollyanna.

ISBN:

1421414570 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781421414577 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)868427736

LCCN:

2013046572

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)