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Tables of Contents for Regendering the School Story
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Introduction
1
28
Redressing the School Story, Crossgendering a Genre
Part I. Before Tom Brown
Anxious Proxies and Independent Girls
29
18
Charles Lamb and Other Early Men
The First Tom Brown
47
16
Dorothy Kilner and Other Early Women
Telling Tales About Telling Tales
63
24
E. J. May and Other Talebearers
At Midcentury
87
16
Mary Martha Sherwood and Other Transitional Women
Part II. During the Heyday of the Canonical Story
Crossing Gender with Race
103
28
Edward Everett Hale and Other U.S. Writers
Crossing Gender with Ethnicity
131
28
Elizabeth Eiloart and Other British Writers
Sensationalizing the School Story
159
16
Ellen Wood
Domesticating the School Story
175
22
Louisa May Alcott
Engendering the School Story
197
32
Julia A. Mathews
Part III. In The Twentieth Century
Policing the Borders, Satirizing the State
229
24
H. G. Wells and Other Female Impersonators
Approaching High Seriousness
253
22
D. Wynne Willson and Other Recent Women
Works Cited
275
18
Author and Title Index
293