| Description |
xiv, 285 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-273) and index. |
| Contents |
There's no place but home : The wizard of Oz -- The long parricidal dream : Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Spinster aunt, sugar daddy, and child-woman : Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm -- Motherland, fatherland, or oedipal politics : Little Lord Fauntleroy -- Ur of the Ur-stories : Tarzan of the apes -- Impostors, succession, and faux histories : The prince and the pauper -- Remorse and regrets : The adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Bosom enemies : Little women -- Bread and circuses : Toby Tyler -- Sunny land, angry waters : Hans Brinker -- Positive thinking : The secret garden -- Radical innocence : Pollyanna. |
| Subject |
Children's stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Children -- Books and reading -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0195058887 (acid-free paper) |
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