Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Glad to be 100: The Making of a Children's Classic Lydia Kokkola Roxanne Harde 3
Part I Pollyanna's World
1 "Then just being glad isn't pro-fi-ta-ble?": Mourning, Class, and Benevolence in Pollyanna Roxanne Harde 27
2 "Aggressive femininity": The Ambiguous Heteronormativity of Pollyanna Laura M. Robinson 44
3 "Matter out of place": Dirt, Disorder, and Ecophobia Anthony Pavlik 58
4 "Ice-cream Sundays": Food and the Liminal Spaces of Class in Pollyanna Samantha Christensen 77
5 At Home in Nature: Negotiating Ecofeminist Politics in Heidi and Pollyanna Monika Elbert 96
Part II Ideological Pollyanna
6 The "veritable bugle-call": An Examination of Pollyanna through the Lens of Twentieth-Century Protestantism Ashley N. Reese 121
7 Pollyanna, the Power of Gladness, and the Philosophy of Pragmatism Janet Wesselius 137
8 When Pollyanna Did Not Grow Up: Girlhood and the Innocent Nation Dorothy Karlin 156
9 Pollyanna: Intersectionalities of the Child, the Region, and the Nation Patricia Oman 172
Part III Adapted Pollyanna
10 The Gospel of Good Cheer: Innocence, Spiritual Healing, and Patriotism in Mary Pickford's Pollyanna Anke Brouwers 191
11 "Almost a golden glow around it": The Filmic Nostalgia of Walt Disney's Pollyanna K. Brenna Wardell 211
12 Pollyanna: Transformation in the Japanese Context Mio Bryce 227
13 Pollyanna in Turkey: Translating a Transnational Icon Tanfer Emin Tunç 246
Afterword. Lessons from Pollyanna Marina Endicott 263
Contributors 267
Index 271