Index Abel, Emily K., 172 abusive potential of affective discipline, 187–93 accidental discipline. See nonintentionality of discipline Ackerman, Alan, 134 affective discipline, 1–23; and abuse, modern concerns regarding, 187–93; and corporal punishment, shift from, 1–2; critiques of method of, 65–67, 69, 71, 171–74, 187–93; individualism and, 15–23 (see also individualism and discipline); intertwining of gender, control, and patriarchal concerns in, 3–5, 195n2; literary historical approach to, 7–9; misdirection, as story of, 1, 23; motherhood and, 162–79 (see also motherhood); and move from sentimental genre to children’s novels, 1–3; Nineteenth Amendment and, 6, 64; nonintentionality of (see nonintentionality of discipline); and power and gender, relationship between, 9–15 (see also power and gender); sympathy and, 143–61 (see also sympathy); texts used to examine, 5–7 (see also specific texts). See also disingenuousness and manipulativeness affective representation: in Anne of Green Gables, 93–95; in Eight Cousins , 57–59; in Emily of New Moon, 121–22, 138–41; in Little Princess, 84; in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, 74–76, 138; in Wide, Wide World, 37–39 Alcott, Louisa May: importance of, 54, 57; Little Women (1868), 165, 166, 169; L. M. Montgomery and, 184; on reading as family experience, 183; Rose in Bloom (1876), 55, 165, 198n2, 199n4; temperance movement and, 55, 184– 85; and women’s suffrage, support for, 197–98n13. See also Eight Cousins Alger, Horatio, 6, 11 American Girl franchise, 159 American Woman’s Home (Beecher and Stowe), 20, 201n1 Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery, 1908), 89–96; affective representation in, 93–95; child’s disciplining of adults in, 90–94; consumption and the market in, 95–96, 158; individualism in, 93, 95, 96, 114; intended audience of, 196n7; motherhood and affective discipline in, 106; Pollyanna compared to, 106, 114, 116; regret at success of affective discipline in, 91–92, 93; sentimental-style affective discipline in, 89–92; sympathy in, 158 architecture and individualism, 117–19 Ariès, Philippe, 205–6n7 Armstrong, Nancy, 8, 33 Avery, Gillian, 21 “Bad Boy writing” and concepts of manliness, 173 Baldwin, Stanley, 184 Bardwell, Harrison, 203n10 Baxter, Kent, 18 Baym, Nina, 57, 136, 150, 197n14 Beecher, Catharine, 14, 20–22, 85, 201n1 Bennett, Bridget, 150 Berlant, Lauren, 160 218 i n d e x Boeckmann, Cathy, 76–77 boys: affectively disciplined by girls, 53–56, 97–105, 112, 166, 169, 174–79, 205n6; “Bad Boy writing” and concepts of manliness, 173; mothering of, 163–65, 176–77, 178; and mothering, separation from, 173–74; orphan novels involving, 6–7 Brodhead, Richard H., 1, 33, 197n3 Brontë, Charlotte, 202n1 Brown, Gillian, 14, 19–20, 40, 62–63, 76, 160, 197–98n7, 198n1 Buchan, William, 25–27 Burnett, F. H.: and Christian Science, influence of, 201n2; Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), 6, 183, 186, 195n4, 204n10, 205n1. See also Little Princess, A; Secret Garden, The Bushnell, Horace, 16, 21, 34, 198n3 Cadogan, Mary, 84, 85 Carley, Rachel, 117–18 Chantell, Claire, 163, 164, 204n8 Chapman, Mary, 10 Charlotte Temple (Rowson, 1791), 182 Chavasse, P. H., 26–28 Children’s Rights (Wiggin, 1892), 74, 172 Christian Nurture (Bushnell, 1847), 16, 21 Christian Science, 201n2 Cobb, Lyman, 16, 21, 27, 34, 196n11, 204n6 communities, sympathetic, creation of, 154–56 community in Pollyanna, 107–10, 115–16, 118–19, 151 consumption and the market: in Anne of Green Gables, 95–96, 158; and Eight Cousins’ concern over girls’ spending and management of wealth, 59–62; and Little Princess, critique of treatment of poverty in, 200n1; sentimental distaste for/predication on, 48, 197– 98n7; and St. Nicholas (periodical), children as consumers and, 158–59, 200–201n3; sympathy and, 145, 157–60 Coolidge, Susan, What Katy Did, 143– 44, 145–49, 150, 152, 154, 156 corporal discipline: in Anne of Green Gables, 91; and bodily boundaries, dependence on, 15–16; fathers and patriarchal authority, association with, 28, 32, 204n6; of girls, 3–4; Hidden Hand’s rejection of, 44–45, 52; shift to affective discipline from, 1–2; and Wide, Wide World, corporal vs. affective discipline debate, 24–31, 33–37 Craftsman (periodical), 118 Craig, Patricia, 84, 85 cross-dressing, 49–51 Cummins, Maria, 173, 204n8 Davidson, Cathy N., 8, 181, 182 death and mourning: dead children as sympathetic link between adults, 190; discipline and, 21; in Emily of New Moon, 121–22; in Little Women, 165; in Pollyanna, 111–13, 124–25; in Secret Garden, 99, 101–3; in sentimental novels versus girls’ novels...