Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure' Book contents
- Children’s Literature and the Rise of “Mind Cure”
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Children’s Literature and the Rise of “Mind Cure”
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Inner Child in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy and Sara Crewe
- Chapter 2 Fauntleroy’s Ghost
- Chapter 3 Rewriting the Rest Cure in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden
- Chapter 4 Sunshine and Shadow
- Chapter 5 New Women, New Thoughts
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Epilogue
The Cinematic Afterlife of New Thought Fiction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2020
- Children’s Literature and the Rise of “Mind Cure”
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Children’s Literature and the Rise of “Mind Cure”
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Inner Child in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy and Sara Crewe
- Chapter 2 Fauntleroy’s Ghost
- Chapter 3 Rewriting the Rest Cure in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden
- Chapter 4 Sunshine and Shadow
- Chapter 5 New Women, New Thoughts
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Summary
So far, this book has focused on classic New Thought fiction for and about children written between approximately 1886 and 1930. But novels like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903), A Little Princess (1905), Anne of Green Gables (1908), The Secret Garden (1911), and Pollyanna (1913) might not be remembered today without the intervention of another medium – film – that kept them consistently in the public eye. While many New Thought novels were made into silent films – take, for instance, Mary Pickford’s renditions of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917), Pollyanna (1920), and Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921) – interest in the genre peaked in the 1930s, when the Great Depression increased public appetite for New Thought.
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- Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure'Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siècle, pp. 187 - 198Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020