Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure'

Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure' PDF Author: Anne Stiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108830943
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Examination into how the new religious movement known as New Thought or "mind cure" influenced fin-de-siècle Anglophone children's fiction.

Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure'

Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure' PDF Author: Anne Stiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108830943
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Book Description
Examination into how the new religious movement known as New Thought or "mind cure" influenced fin-de-siècle Anglophone children's fiction.

Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure'

Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure' PDF Author: Anne Stiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108906834
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Book Description
Positive thinking is good for you. You can become healthy, wealthy, and influential by using the power of your mind to attract what you desire. These kooky but commonplace ideas stem from a nineteenth-century new religious movement known as 'mind cure' or New Thought. Related to Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science, New Thought was once a popular religious movement with hundreds of thousands of followers, and has since migrated into secular contexts such as contemporary psychotherapy, corporate culture, and entertainment. New Thought also pervades nineteenth- and early twentieth-century children's literature, including classics such as The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, and A Little Princess. In this first book-length treatment of New Thought in Anglophone fiction, Anne Stiles explains how children's literature encouraged readers to accept New Thought ideas - especially psychological concepts such as the inner child - thereby ensuring the movement's survival into the present day.

Children's Literature and the Rise of 'mind Cure'

Children's Literature and the Rise of 'mind Cure' PDF Author: Anne Stiles
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Book Description
Positive thinking is good for you. You can become healthy, wealthy, and influential by using the power of your mind to attract what you desire. These kooky but commonplace ideas stem from a nineteenth-century new religious movement known as 'mind cure' or New Thought. Related to Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science, New Thought was once a popular religious movement with hundreds of thousands of followers, and has since migrated into secular contexts such as contemporary psychotherapy, corporate culture, and entertainment. New Thought also pervades nineteenth-century children's literature, including classics such as The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, and A Little Princess. In this first book-length treatment of New Thought in Anglophone fiction, Anne Stiles explains how children's literature encouraged readers to accept New Thought ideas - especially psychological concepts such as the inner child - thereby ensuring the movement's survival into the present day.

Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth Century Literature and Science

Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth Century Literature and Science PDF Author: Matthew Rowlinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009409956
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Book Description
Centring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.

Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence

Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence PDF Author: Sarah Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108831516
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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Book Description
Sarah Green shows how late Victorian Decadent literature paradoxically treats sexual restraint as healthy and aesthetically productive.

Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel PDF Author: Lauren Gillingham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009296566
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.

Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel

Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel PDF Author: Aaron Rosenberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 1009271822
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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At the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extraction, and technological complexity accelerated daily life, growing concerns about deep time, evolution, globalization, and extinction destabilised scale's value as a measure of reality. Here, Aaron Rosenberg examines how four novelists moved radically beyond novelistic realism, repurposing the genres-romance, melodrama, gothic, and epic-it had ostensibly superseded. He demonstrates how H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf engaged with climatic and ecological crises that persist today, requiring us to navigate multiple temporal and spatial scales simultaneously. The volume shows that problems of scale constrain our responses to crisis by shaping the linguistic, aesthetic, and narrative structures through which we imagine it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination

Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination PDF Author: Leila Neti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108837484
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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Examines the shared cultural genealogy of popular Victorian novels and judicial opinions of the Privy Council.

Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel

Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel PDF Author: Timothy Gao
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108944892
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Pondering the town he had invented in his novels, Anthony Trollope had 'so realised the place, and the people, and the facts' of Barset that 'the pavement of the city ways are familiar to my footsteps'. After his novels end, William Thackeray wonders where his characters now live, and misses their conversation. How can we understand the novel as a form of artificial reality? Timothy Gao proposes a history of virtual realities, stemming from the imaginary worlds created by novelists like Trollope, Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, and Charles Dickens. Departing from established historical or didactic understandings of Victorian fiction, Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel recovers the period's fascination with imagined places, people, and facts. This text provides a short history of virtual experiences in literature, four studies of major novelists, and an innovative approach for scholars and students to interpret realist fictions and fictional realities from before the digital age. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

(Re)imagining the World

(Re)imagining the World PDF Author: Yan Wu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642367607
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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Book Description
(Re)Imagining the world: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times considers how writers of fiction for children imagine ‘the world’, not one universal world, but different worlds: imaginary, strange, familiar, even monstrous worlds. The chapters in this collection discuss how fiction for children engages with some of the changes brought about by new technologies, information literacy, consumerism, migration, politics, different family structures, cosmopolitanism, new and old monsters. They also invite us to think about how memory shapes our understanding of the past, and how fiction engages our emotions, our capacity to empathise, and our desire to discover, and what the future may hold. The contributors bring different perspectives from education, postcolonial studies, literary criticism, cultural studies, childhood studies, postmodernism, and the social sciences. With a wide coverage of texts from different countries, and scholarly and lively discussions, this collection is itself a testament to the power of the human imagination and the significance of children’s literature in the education of young people. ​