Representations & Reflections - Studies in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures - Volume 9 - A Hundred Years of The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Children’s Classic Revisited

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This volume, Representations & Reflections, studies anglophone literatures and cultures through focused scholarship on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. Building on the novel’s 1911 legacy, it revisits its child-centered narrative, pastoral nature, and symbolic resonance while examining cultural history, nature and female identity, spatial representations linked to health, and redefinitions of Englishness. Additional chapters explore redemptive children, male identity, otherness, and adaptations in film, anime, and later reimaginings such as Noel Streatfeild’s The Painted Garden.

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The Secret Garden Revisited

The Garden in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden in the Context of Cultural History

‘There was every joy on earth in the secret garden’ – Nature and Female Identity in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden

‘It was the garden that did it!’ – Spatial Representations with References to Illness and Health in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden

Redemptive Children in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Novels: Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden

Life in the Domestic Realm – Male Identity in The Secret Garden

Constructions of ‘Otherness’ in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden and the Redefinition of Englishness

Pink Cats and Dancing Daisies: A Narratological Approach to Anime and Film Versions of The Secret Garden

Forty Years On: Reimagining and Going Beyond The Secret Garden in Noel Streatfeild’s The Painted Garden

Porridge or Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavour Beans?– Attitudes towards Food in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden and Other Children’s Classics

Edwardian Girlhood Fiction and the Tradition of the Female Novel of Development

Representations & Reflections Studies in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures Volume 9 Edited by Uwe Baumann, Marion Gymnichand Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp Marion Gymnich / Imke Lichterfeld (eds.) A Hundred Years of The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Children’s Classic Revisited V &R unipress Bonn University Press Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at [http://dnb.d-nb.de](http://dnb.d-nb.de). ISBN 978-3-8471-0054-6 ISBN 978-3-8470-0054-9 (E-Book) Publications of Bonn University Press are published by V&R unipress GmbH. Ó Copyright 2012 by V&R unipress GmbH, D-37079 Goettingen All rights reserved, including those of translation into foreign languages. No part of this work may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilm and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Cover image: The illustration by Maria Louise Kirk shows the cover of the 1911 edition of“The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett. M. L. Kirk was a prolific illustrator, born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, circa 1860. She studied art in Philadelphia, and died in the 1930s. Thanks to James Stack, University of Washington Libraries. Printing and binding: CPI Buch Bücher.de GmbH, Birkach Printed in Germany Contents Marion Gymnich and Imke Lichterfeld The Secret Garden Revisited ......................... 7 Raimund Borgmeier The Garden in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden in the Context of Cultural History ......................... 15 Imke Lichterfeld‘There was every joy on earth in the secret garden’ – Nature and Female Identity in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden ......... 27 Anja Drautzburg‘It was the garden that did it!’ – Spatial Representations with References to Illness and Health in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden .. 39 Angelika Zirker Redemptive Children in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Novels: Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden ...................... 53 Stefanie Krüger Life in the Domestic Realm – Male Identity in The Secret Garden ..... 69 Sara Strauß Constructions of ‘Otherness’ in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden ..................................... 77 Thomas Kullmann The Secret Garden and the Redefinition of Englishness .......... 91 Hanne Birk Pink Cats and Dancing Daisies: A Narratological Approach to Anime and Film Versions of The Secret Garden ..................... 105 Ramona Rossa Forty Years On: Reimagining and Going Beyond The Secret Garden in Noel Streatfeild’s The Painted Garden .................... 125 Marion Gymnich Porridge or Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavour Beans?– Attitudes towards Food in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden and Other Children’s Classics .................................... 141 Gislind Rohwer-Happe Edwardian Girlhood Fiction and the Tradition of the Female Novel of Development ................................. 167 Contributors ................................. 189 Marion Gymnich and Imke Lichterfeld The Secret Garden Revisited Although Frances Hodgson Burnett published numerous works for an adult readership, she is mainly remembered today for three novels written for children: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden(1911).1 The Secret Garden, serialized from autumn1910to summer1911 in monthly instalments in The American Magazine, has often been referred to as Burnett’s best novel2 – despite the fact that “for the first fifty years after its publication The Secret Garden was never as popular as Little Lord Fauntleroy or A Little Princess”.3 Critics who consider The Secret Garden Burnett’s masterpiece tend to emphasise in particu

FAQs

本书聚焦的核心对象是什么？

本书聚焦 Frances Hodgson Burnett 的儿童经典小说 The Secret Garden，并以“百年回顾”为主题展开学术讨论与再解读。

章节将如何处理 The Secret Garden 的主题与意义？

各章节从文化史、自然与女性身份、空间表征与健康关联、叙事与改编研究等角度分析其象征意义、人物塑造与审美结构。

本卷是否涵盖改编与后续再想象的讨论？

是的，目录中包含对动画与电影版本的叙事学分析，以及对 Noel Streatfeild 的 The Painted Garden 等后续再创作的研究内容。

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