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6) Pollyanna
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Unwanted and unloved, Pollyanna Whittier comes to her aunt's home without a warm welcome. Pollyanna's irrepressible spirits make punishments seem like treats and her cheerfulness brings happiness to her aunt and other members of the community.
10) CinderSilly
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In this variation of Cinderella, CinderSilly learns to make chores fun, and magic is in the power of imagination.
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"This book offers the first study of a form of emotion that has inflected both the social life and the literary history of the European/American cultural tradition since the Renaissance. It explores the changing fortunes and shapes of cheerfulness and gaiety in cultural texts ranging from the tragedies of Shakespeare to the music of Louis Armstrong. It recasts our understanding of the relationship between poetry and the emotions, and models a new...