| Title Page | 4 |
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| Copyright | 5 |
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| Table of Contents | 6 |
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| Body | 8 |
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| Marion Gymnich and Imke Lichterfeld: The Secret Garden Revisited | 8 |
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| References | 14 |
| Raimund Borgmeier: The Garden in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden in the Context of Cultural History | 16 |
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| References | 27 |
| Imke Lichterfeld: `There was every joy on earth in the secret garden' – Nature and Female Identity in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden | 28 |
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| References | 37 |
| Anja Drautzburg: `It was the garden that did it!' – Spatial Representations with References to Illness and Health in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden | 40 |
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| Some Reflections on Space | 40 |
| Spaces of Illness and Health | 42 |
| India | 42 |
| Misselthwaite Manor | 43 |
| The Secret Garden | 47 |
| Conclusion | 52 |
| References | 52 |
| Angelika Zirker: Redemptive Children in Frances Hodgson Burnett's Novels: Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden | 54 |
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| I. Beginnings and Introductions | 56 |
| II. Changes | 60 |
| III. Endings | 65 |
| References | 67 |
| Stefanie Krüger: Life in the Domestic Realm – Male Identity in The Secret Garden | 70 |
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| I. Introduction | 70 |
| II. Two Domestic Realms – Misselthwaite Manor | 71 |
| III. Two Domestic Realms – The Garden | 74 |
| IV. Conclusion | 76 |
| References | 77 |
| Sara Strauß: Constructions of `Otherness' in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden | 78 |
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| I. Representations of India as the `Other' | 80 |
| II. Representations of Yorkshire as the `Other' | 85 |
| References | 90 |
| Thomas Kullmann: The Secret Garden and the Redefinition of Englishness | 92 |
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| References | 104 |
| Hanne Birk: Pink Cats and Dancing Daisies: A Narratological Approach to Anime and Film Versions of The Secret Garden | 106 |
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| I. Introduction | 106 |
| II. Towards a Narratological Toolkit for the Analysis of Anime | 109 |
| III. Conclusion | 122 |
| References | 124 |
| Ramona Rossa: Forty Years On: Reimagining and Going Beyond The Secret Garden in Noel Streatfeild's The Painted Garden | 126 |
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| I. Introduction | 126 |
| II. Nature and the Artificial: Rural Yorkshire and Urban California | 127 |
| III. Parent Figures and Gender Roles | 131 |
| IV. Streatfeild's Own: Children in the Performing Arts | 134 |
| V. Emancipation: Jane's Story | 137 |
| VI. Conclusion | 140 |
| References | 141 |
| Marion Gymnich: Porridge or Bertie Bott's Every-Flavour Beans? – Attitudes towards Food in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and Other Children's Classics | 142 |
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| I. Introduction | 142 |
| II. Getting Fat, Becoming Healthy and Happy – Food in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden | 144 |
| III. Learning to Eat with Restraint: Children's Classics from the Nineteenth Century and the Early Twentieth Century | 149 |
| IV. Eating is fun! – Food in Children's Literature from the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries | 156 |
| V. Conclusion | 163 |
| References | 164 |
| Gislind Rohwer-Happe: Edwardian Girlhood Fiction and the Tradition of the Female Novel of Development | 168 |
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| I. The Female Bildungsroman as the Antecedent of Edwardian Girlhood Fiction | 168 |
| II. Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career: A Fictional Autobiography Based upon Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre | 171 |
| III. Anne of Green Gables: The Heir of Jane Austen and Jane Eyre | 176 |
| IV. The Secret Garden: The Female Bildungsroman as Children's Novel | 183 |
| V. Conclusion | 186 |
| References | 187 |
| Contributors | 190 |