10. An Enchanting Girl: International Portraits of Anne’s Cultural Transfer

Gammel, Irene; O’Malley, Andrew; Banwait, Ranbir K.

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Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure'

Stiles

2020

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Positive thinking is good for you. You can become healthy, wealthy, and influential by using the power of your mind to attract what you desire. These kooky but commonplace ideas stem from a nineteenth-century new religious movement known as 'mind cure' or New Thought. Related to Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science, New Thought was once a popular religious movement with hundreds of thousands of followers, and has since migrated into secular contexts such as contemporary psychotherapy, corporate culture, and entertainment. New Thought also pervades nineteenth- and early twentieth-century children's literature, including classics such as The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, and A Little Princess. In this first book-length treatment of New Thought in Anglophone fiction, Anne Stiles explains how children's literature encouraged readers to accept New Thought ideas - especially psychological concepts such as the inner child - thereby ensuring the movement's survival into the present day.

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Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure'

Stiles

2020

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Avonlea as ‘world’: JapaneseAnne of Green Gablestourism as embodied fandom

Bergstrom¹

2014

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Fictional Spaces, Contested Images: Anne 's "Authentic" Afterlife

Bhadury¹

2011

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This article addresses the active afterlife of L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (1908) in terms of its commodification. Focusing specifically on the Anne dolls available in the market, as well as certain Canadian tourist spots inspired by Anne , the article delves into the thorny issue of "authenticity"—imagined in textual, legal and corporate terms—in case of these literary spin-off products. Finally, it takes up the question of materiality, with respect to Anne dolls in particular, in order to interrogate (English-) Canadian nationalism in the context of global Anne commodity circulation.

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10. An Enchanting Girl: International Portraits of Anne’s Cultural Transfer

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Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure'

Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure'

Avonlea as ‘world’: JapaneseAnne of Green Gablestourism as embodied fandom

Fictional Spaces, Contested Images: Anne 's "Authentic" Afterlife

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