Transient disabilities: didactic illness, corrective pain and enforced care relations in the “Golden Age” of children's literature by Khaira, Tasreen Kaur

“…Paying special attention to texts that continue to be reprinted and adapted today—such as Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden and its film adaptations—this thesis will trace the extent to which they continue to perpetuate hegemonic structures of able-bodied normativity and femininity despite the shifting social and cultural attitudes towards disability today.…”
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