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

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Take Up Thy Bed and Walk provides an in-depth critical analysis of a number of nineteenth and early twentieth-century works for girls, including Jane Eyre, Little Women, The Secret Garden, and Pollyanna. Lois Keith argues that these works reflect the widespread beliefs that a disabled life isn't a full life and that patients can cure themselves through force of will. She also situates her study in a modern context by discussing representations of disabled people in contemporary films such as Breaking the Waves, contemporary plays such as Broken Glass, and in the media coverage of Christopher Reeve.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415937405
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 7/28/2001
  • Series: Children's Literature and Culture Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Books and Authors in Order of Publication
Introduction 1
Ch. 1 Punishment and Pity: Images and Representations of Disability, Illness and Cure 15
Ch. 2 Too Good to Live: Deathbed Scenes in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women 33
Ch. 3 Learning to be Perfectly Good: What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge 69
Ch. 4 The Miracle Cures: Clara in Heidi by Johanna Spyri and Colin in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 95
Ch. 5 A Study of Disability, Class and Gender: Pollyanna and Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor Porter 141
Ch. 6 Misrule, Rebellion and Death: Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner 170
Ch. 7 What Writers Did Next: Representations of Disability in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century 194
Conclusion 238
Select Bibliography 250
Index 258
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