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Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure': Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siècle - Couverture rigide

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Stiles, Anne

 
9781108830942: Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure': Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siècle
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ISBN 10 : 1108830943 ISBN 13 : 9781108830942
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Anne Stiles is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Medical Humanities at Saint Louis University, Missouri. She is the author of Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 2011) and the editor of Neurology and Literature, 1866-1920 (2007). She also co-edited two volumes in part of the Progress in Brain Research series (2013). Her work has been supported by long-term grants from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (2016-2017); the Huntington Library (2009-2010); and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006-2007).

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1108830943
ISBN 13 
9781108830942
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Nombre de pages
217
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ISBN 10 :  1108823777 ISBN 13 :  9781108823777
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2022
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