著者

西垣 佐理

出版者

近畿大学全学共通教育機構教養・外国語教育センター

雑誌

近畿大学教養・外国語教育センター紀要. 外国語編 = Kindai university center for liberal arts and foreign language education journal. Foreign Language edition (ISSN:2432454X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, no.2, pp.1-13, 2019-11-30

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[Abstract] The Secret Garden (1911), a masterpiece in children’s literature crafted by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), is a story of healing and resurrection. It starts with images of illness and depression engulfing the world. The protagonists, Mary Lennox and her cousin Colin Craven, are abandoned by adults, and they both become spoiled and selfish. Their physical and mental healing process is the turning point of the story, and it is shown through the regeneration of an abandoned garden in Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire. This process is a recurrent theme in the nursing narratives during the Victorian era; Charles Dickens’s novels are striking examples of this narrative style. In this paper, I will elaborate on the characteristics of a nursing narrative by children by comparing them with typical narrative patterns in Victorian literature and focusing on the depictions of healing in the story.