Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder : Little house and beyond /

"Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond offers a sustained, critical examination of Wilder's writings, including her Little House series, her posthumously published and unrevised The First Four Years, her letters, her journalism, and her autobiography, Pioneer Girl. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Green-Barteet, Miranda A. (Editor), Phillips, Anne K. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
Series:Children's Literature Association series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Miranda A. Green-Barteet and Anne K. Phillips
  • Wilder and truth
  • Play it again, Pa: repetition in Pioneer Girl: the annotated autobiography and Little: novels / Katharine Slater
  • It all depends on how you look at it: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, Independence Day, and family economics / Dawn Sardella-Ayres
  • The complicated politics of disability: reading the Little House books and Helen Keller / Keri Holt and Christine Cooper-Rompato
  • Wilder and constructions of gender
  • Naked horses on the prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder's imagined Anglo-Indian womanhood / Vera R. Foley
  • Her own baby: dolls and family in "Indians Ride Away" / Jenna Brack
  • Laura's lineage: the matrilineal legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House narratives / Sonya Sawyer Fritz
  • Laura's "Farmer Boy": fictionalizing Almanzo Wilder in the Little House series / Melanie J. Fishbane
  • Wilder, plains studies, and the American literature canon
  • Mobile stickers and the specter of snugness: Pa's place-making in Dakota territory / Lindsay R. Stephens
  • More than grassy hills: land, space, and female identity in Laura Ingalls Wilder and Willa Cather / Elif S. Armbruster
  • Breathing literary lives from the prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder and the promises of rural women's education in the Little House series / Jericho Williams
  • The undergraduate American studies classroom: teaching American myths and memories with Laura Ingalls Wilder / Christiane E. Farnan
  • Cultural and intercultural Wilder
  • The Wilder mystique: antimodernism, tourism, and authenticity in Laura Ingalls Wilder country / Anna Thompson Hajdik
  • A little place in the universe: an Ojibwe, Osage, and Dakota view of Laura Ingalls / Margaret Noodin
  • Kawaii Wilder: Little House in Japan / Emily Anderson and Shosuke Kinugawa
  • List of contributors
  • Index.