Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction Jackie C. Horne Donna R. White|xi
Part I Competing Discourses 1
Chapter 1 Deus ex Natura or Nonstick Pan?: Competing Discourses in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows David Rudd 3
Chapter 2 Techne, Technology, and Disenchantment in The Wind in the Willows Deborah Dysart-Gale 23
Chapter 3 "Up [and Down and Back and Forth] We Go!": Dialogic and Carnivalesque Qualities in the Wind in the Willows Cathrine L. Elick 43
Chapter 4 It's a Mole-Eat-Hare World: The River Bank, the School, and the Colony Meg Worley 67
Chapter 5 A Contemporary Psychological Understanding of Mr. Toad and His Relationships in The Wind in the Willows Jonathan Mattanah 87
Part II Representations of the Edwardian Age 109
Chapter 6 "Animal-Etiquette" and Edwarelian Manners in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows Karen A. Keely 111
Chapter 7 Locating Englishness within the Commodity Culture of the Early Twentieth Century in the Wind in the Willows Ymitri Mathison 135
Chapter 8 Animal Boys, Aspiring Aesthetes, and Differing Masculinities: Aestheticism Revealed in The Wind in the Willows Wynn Yarbrough 157
Part III Beyond the Text 187
Chapter 9 The Wind Blows to the East: On Chinese Translations of Kenneth Graham's The Wind in the Willows Shu-Fang Lai 189
Chapter 10 The Pursuit of Pleasure in The Wind in the Willows and Disney's The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad Jennifer Geer 215
Index 239
About the Contributors 257
