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

Author/creator Clark, Beverly Lyon
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Garland Pub., ©1996.
Descriptionviii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects
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.

SeriesChildren's literature and culture ; v. 3. Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1060
Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1060.
Garland reference library of social science. Children's literature and culture series ; v. 3.
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.
Local noteLittle-315263--305131016417W
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [275]-292) and index.
LCCN 96019804
ISBN0815321163 (acid-free paper)