Take Up Thy Bed and Walk: Death, Disability and Cure in Classic Fiction for Girls

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-93740-5
Verlag: ROUTLEDGE

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture

Take Up Thy Bed and Walk provides an in-depth critical analysis of a number of nineteenth and early twentieth-century works for girls that reflect widespread beliefs that a disabled life isn't a full life and that patients can cure themselves through force of will.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keith, Lois

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Books and Authors in Order of Publication
Introduction
1. Punishment and Pity: Images and Representations of Disability, Illness, and Cure
2. Too Good to Live: Deathbed Scenes in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
3. Learning to Be Perfectly Good: What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
4. The Miracle Cures: Clara in Heidi by Johanna Spyri and Colin in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. A Study of Disability, Class and Gender: Pollyanna and Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor Porter
6. Misrule, Rebellion and Death: Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
7. What Writers Did Next: Representations of Disability in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lois Keith is a freelance writer, teacher, and civil rights activist in England. She is the editor of Musn't Grumble:Writing by Disabled Women, and the author of A Different Life, and Think About People Who Use Wheelchairs. She is the recipient of Great Britain's MIND Book of the Year Award, Book Trust's 100 Best Books of the Year, and was shortlisted for Great Britain's Nasen Special Education Award.