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Kenneth Grahame's the Wind in the Willows
A Children's Classic at 100
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2009
Summary
In 1908, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows was published to surprisingly little critical fanfare. But readers championed its cause, and Grahame's novel of a riverbank life soon proved both a commercial_and ultimately critical_success. One hundred years after its first publication, Grahame's book and its memorable characters continue their hold on the public imagination and have taken their place in the canon of children's literature. However, little academic criticism emerged in the wake of the book's initial publication. Only after the appearance of Peter Green's biocritical study did the academy begin to wrestle with Grahame's complex work, though many read it in terms of Grahame's often unhappy personal life. The essays in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows: A Children's Classic at 100 focus on recent discussions of the book in regards to class, gender, and nationality but also examine issues previously not addressed by Grahame criticism, such as the construction of heteronormative masculinity, the appeal of this very English novel to Chinese readers, and the meaning of a text in which animals can be human-like, pets, servants, and even food. This volume also revisits some of the issues that have engaged critics from the start, including the book's dual-strand narrative structure, the function of home, and the psychological connections between Toad and Grahame. Scholars of fantasy and children's literature will find great value in this collection that sheds new light on this enduring classic.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-7258-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-7259-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
260
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1. Deus ex Natura or Nonstick Pan?: Competing Discourses in Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows No access
Chapter 2. Techne, Technology, and Disenchantment in The Wind in the Willows No access
Chapter 3. “Up [and Down and Back and Forth] We Go!”: Dialogic and Carnivalesque Qualities in The Wind in the Willows No access
Chapter 4. It’s a Mole-Eat-Hare World: The River Bank, the School, and the Colony No access
Chapter 5. A Contemporary Psychological Understanding of Mr. Toad and His Relationships in The Wind in the Willows No access
Chapter 6. “Animal-Etiquette” and Edwardian Manners in Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows No access
Chapter 7. Locating Englishness within the Commodity Culture of the Early Twentieth Century in The Wind in the Willows No access
Chapter 8. Animal Boys, Aspiring Aesthetes, and Differing Masculinities: Aestheticism Revealed in The Wind in the Willows No access
Chapter 9. The Wind Blows to the East: On Chinese Translations of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows No access
Chapter 10. The Pursuit of Pleasure in The Wind in the Willows and Disney’s The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad No access
