Secret Garden |
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| Editor:
| Bixler, Phyllis |
| Series title: | Masterwork Studies Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8057-8814-3 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1996 |
| Publisher: | Cengage Gale
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| Imprint: | Macmillan Reference USA |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $68.00 |
Book Description:
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In this comprehensive study of Burnetts masterwork, its literary milieu, and its enthusiastic, if belated, critical treatment, Phyllis Bixler argues that Burnett adapted themes and forms from fairy tales and moral tales about exemplary children to create a compelling story. Bixler discusses Burnetts debt to the romantic movement and the long western tradition of literary pastoral, showing how its association of childhood and garden makes Burnetts childrens classic a bridge between...
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In this comprehensive study of Burnetts masterwork, its literary milieu, and its enthusiastic, if belated, critical treatment, Phyllis Bixler argues that Burnett adapted themes and forms from fairy tales and moral tales about exemplary children to create a compelling story. Bixler discusses Burnetts debt to the romantic movement and the long western tradition of literary pastoral, showing how its association of childhood and garden makes Burnetts childrens classic a bridge between the romantic and such hallmarks of the moderns T. S. Eliots Four Quartets and D. H. Lawrences Lady Chatterleys Lover. Bixler addresses the mythic appeal of The Secret Garden, and its description and encouragement of childrens self-reliance.