Nancy’s Ancestors: the Mystery of Imaginative Female Power in The Secret Garden and A Little Princess

Moran, Mary Jeanette

doi:10.1057/9780333985137_3

Mystery in Children's Literature 2001

DOI: 10.1057/9780333985137_3

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Nancy’s Ancestors: the Mystery of Imaginative Female Power in The Secret Garden and A Little Princess

Mary Jeanette Moran¹

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Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden : Engendering Abjection's Sublime

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This essay examines the continued appeal of Burnett's novel despite its apparently conservative, gendered values. Read in the context of the late-Victorian zeitgeist and through Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection, however, The Secret Garden reveals challenges to the culture's dominant values of competition and provides readers with an alternative model of social interaction. With this psychosocial model, Burnett also demonstrates the value of acknowledging, rather than denying, that which has been rejected by culture.

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Nancy’s Ancestors: the Mystery of Imaginative Female Power in The Secret Garden and A Little Princess

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Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden : Engendering Abjection's Sublime

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