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    • Postscript 34.1
      • Catherine England, “Moral Appetites in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters”
      • Fumie Kato, “Integrating a Debate Activity into an Intermediate Japanese Class: A Practice Report Through Learner’s Reflection.”
      • Margaret Williams, “Chalk to Me: The Search for Useful Knowledge in a Local, Rhetorical Ecology”
      • Timothy Ajani, “Syntax and People: How Amos Tutuola’s English Was Shaped by His People”
      • Themis Kaniklidou, “Storied Ironies of the Wall”
  • Past Issues
    • Postscript 31-40
      • Postscript 31.1
      • Postscript 32.1
        • Alison Smith, “Buñuel’s Improbable Cast of Female Characters in The Milky Way”
      • Postscript 33.1
        • Eric Hyman, “The Importance of Being Lucio”
        • Jeremy Patterson, “The History of Trauma and the Trauma of History in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! and Natasha Tretheway’s Native Guard.”
        • José Bautista, “The Bigoted Education of a Dominican Young Man or the Narrator-Protagonist of El masacre se pasa a pie as Dilettante.”
        • Joshua Taylor, “America’s Gun Control Failure: Encouraging a Deliberative Alternative”
        • Laurence Machet, “‘An absolute and perpetual power’?: John Lawson’s Travel Narrative and Issues of Sovereignty in Eighteenth-Century Carolina”
        • Mason A. Jones, “Agony and Abandonment: The Oppression of Children in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky”
    • Postscript 21-30
      • Postscript 21.1
        • Editor’s Introduction
        • Paul A. Youngman, “Theodor Fontane’s _ahermaliger Zug_: Myth, Enlightenment and the Train in _Cecile_ and _Effi Briest_
        • Melissa Birkhofer, “Gender Relations and the Rural Hierarchy in Bobbie Ann Mason’s _Feather Crowns_”
        • Christine Anton, “In Contempt of the Court-Friedrich Schiller’s Take on the Legal System in Eighteenth-CenturyGermany”
        • Bethany Perkins, “Binx Bolling and the Compson Brothers: Navigating Kierkegaardian Spheres of Existence”
        • Mary H. McNulty, “Postmodernism in Children’s Books”
      • Postscript 22.1
        • Editors’ Introduction
        • David McCracken, “Francis Phelan as a Postmodern Odysseus in William Kennedy’s _Ironweed_”
        • Lois Rauch Gibson, “_A SeparatePeace_: Four Decades of Critical Response”
        • Ronald J. Nelson, “Inconclusive Closure in Carol Shields’ _The OrangeFish_”
        • Lorena Russell, “Hope and Despair in _The English Patient_”
        • Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau, “Friedrich Gerstacker Writes, “‘Let’s go to America:’ German Immigration and Colonial Fantasies in the Nineteenth Century”
        • Allison Cooper, “Breaking the Seven-Hundred Year Silence: Yosano Akiko Speaks”
        • Ann González, “Who is Mambru and What is He Doing in Kindergarten?”
        • Krystal Blanton, Kim Bailey, and Boyd Davis, “Corpora and Concordancing: Benefits to Classroom Instruction”
        • Christopher D. Johnson, “Bad Science, Good Rhetoric, and the End of the World”
      • Postscript 23.1
        • Editors’ Introduction
        • Peter Whelan, “Samson, Delilah, and Yahweh: Character and Prejudice”
        • Richard Vela, “The Merchants of Venice: The Importance of Context in Film Versions of the Play”
        • Katie Rose Guest, “‘Embrace the Prudent Alliance’: William Byrd of Westover and Intermarriage between Europeans and Native Americans”
        • Andrew Brooks, “The Tyrant Motif and Nosferatu: 1922, 1979, and 2000”
        • Brian Chandler, “Archive and Origins in _Los perros del paraiso_”
        • Kirsten A. Krick-Aigner, “Girls Coming of Age During World War Two and the Postwar in Austria: Novels by Christine Nostlinger and Renate Welsh”
        • Ellen Arnold, “Preying on the Working Mother: Michael Crichton’s Real Villain”
        • Marsha Taylor, “Coyote Beautiful: The Joy of Sisterhood in Barbara Kingsolver’s _Prodigal Summer_”
        • Lorena Russell, “Aesthetes, Ogees and “The Lady”: Queer Complications in _The Line of Beauty_”
      • Postscript 24.1
        • Editors’ Introduction
        • David Cross, “Ontological Uncertainty in Three Stories by Jorge Luis Borges”
        • Josephine A. Koster, “‘I have traveled a good deal in Norfolk’: Reconsidering Women’s Literacy in Late Medieval England”
        • Amanda Hiner, “Seventeenth-Century Women’s Educational Theorists and the Problem of Publicity”
        • Rachael Williams, “The Imaginary South of Country-Western Music”
        • Pamela Richardson, “Boys, Girls, and Trains: Ambiguous Gender Roles in E. Nesbit’s _The Railway Children_”
      • Postscript 25.1
        • Editors’ Introduction
        • Renee L. Greenan, “Always ‘Poundin’ a Kid’: Abusive Realism in Stephen Crane’s _Maggie_”
        • David Cross, “A Critique of Arabic Literature and Society: Naguib Mahfouz’s _Arabian Nights and Days_”
        • Eileen Crowe, “Re-Valuing the Personal Narrative: Developing Metaphor and Critical Thinking in the Composition Classroom”
        • Simone Zahler, “The Four Conceptions of the Simplon Road in William Wordsworth’s _The Prelude_”
        • Merritt Moseley, “Pounds, Shillings, and Pence: Currency Values and Reading English Literature, 1750-1998”
        • Elisa Pollack, “The Indo-European Roots of the German Verb SEIN ‘to be’”
        • Gary Ettari, “‘Ut Pictura Poesis’: Jonson and the Painted Subject”
      • Postscript 26.1
      • Postscript 27.1
        • David Smith, “The Role of Einbildungskraft in Lenz’s Der Waldbruder: Ein Pendant zu Werthers Leiden”
        • Kirk Boyle, “Ideology at the End of Time.”
      • Postscript 28.1
      • Postscript 29.1
      • Postscript 30.1
    • Postscript 11-20
      • Postscript 11.1
      • Postscript 12.1
      • Postscript 13.1
      • Postscript 14.1
      • Postscript 15.1
      • Postscript 16.1
      • Postscript 17.1
      • Postscript 18.1
        • Editor’s Introduction
        • Margaret J. Oakes, “”For reason, put to her best extension, / Almost meets faith”: The Flawed Dialectical Structure in Donne’s Sonnets”
        • Lynn Hanson, “Defining the Heroic: Characterization in Alice Childress’ _Trouble in Mind_”
        • Gwen W. Macallister, “”You must zee it all the time”: Making Words into Windows in _A Hazard of New Fortunes_”
        • Matthew W. Morris, “Jean d’Arras and Couldrette: Political Expediency and Censorship in Fifteenth-Century France”
        • David McCracken, “”A Call to the Blood”: E.M. Forster’s _A Room with a View_ as a Precursor to D.H. Lawrence’s _Lady Chatterley’s Lover_”
        • Merritt Moseley, “Julian Barnes and the Displacement of Adultery”
      • Postscript 19.1
      • Postscript 20.1
        • Editor’s Introduction
        • Elizabeth A. Zahnd, “The Lying Game: Falsehoods and Fabrications in _La vida breve_”
        • Jim Haughey, “”Up to Our Necks in Fenian Blood”: Ulster Loyalism, its Myths and the Somme in Christina Reid’s _My Name, Shall I Tell YouMy Name?_”
        • Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau, “Reading as the Path to Revolt? Emile Zola’s _Germinal_”
        • Nancy Barendse, “Connie Turns Fifty: “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” as Postmodern Experience”
        • Tony Perrello, “”These moors are changeable”: Using Film to Teach Racial Politics and Othello”
    • Postscript, 1-10
      • Postscript 1.1
        • Postscript 1.1 Preface
        • Elgin W. Mellown, “The Poems of Edwin Muir and Their Relationship to Modernism”
        • Louis A. MacKenzie, “La Couche erotique in Racine’s ‘Britannicus'”
        • Patrick Scott, “Genre, Perspective and Opinion in the Study of Victorian Ideology: The Case of Elizabeth Missing Sewell”
        • Robert Ross, “‘Bartleby the Scrivener’: An American Cousin”
        • Meilli Steele, “Sartre and the Dramatic Character: Theory and Practice”
        • Jeanne J. Smoot, “‘Young Goodman Brown’ –Puritan Don Juan: Faith in Tirso and Hawthorne”
        • Gilbert Allen, “Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas: Sixty Years After”
        • Gene M. Moore, “The World of Words in Joyce’s _Portrait_ and Musil’s _Turles_”
        • Mark S. Shearer, “The Cry of Birth: King Lear’s Hysterica Passio”
        • Howard M. Fraser, “The Uses of Enchantment in Modernist Fantasy Fiction”
        • Douglas R. Hilt, “August Wilhem Schlegel’s Concept of Calderon as a Romantic Playwright”
        • Kenneth Watson, “The Center of Coleridge’s Shakespeare Criticism”
        • Donna E. Landry, “Genre and Revision: The Example of Welty’s __The Optimist’s Daughter__”
        • Martha A. Langley, “__Tess of the d’Urbervilles__ and the __Hippolytus__”
        • Mary Jane Scott, “James Thomson and Gavin Douglas: Some Continuities in Scottish Augustan Verse”
      • Postscript 2.1
        • Postscript 2.1 Preface
        • Andrea Sanders, “‘Mirrors Arranged in a Circle Around One Center’: The O’Connor Mystery Cycle”
        • Fred Chappell, “What Did Adrian Leverkuhn Create?”
        • Jeanée P. Sacken, “George Sand, Kate Chopin, Margaret Atwood, and the Redefinition of Self”
        • Elizabeth J. Bellamy, “Androgyny and the Epic Quest: The Female Warrior in Ariosto and Spenser”
        • Carolyne Ellison Stringfellow, “Shakespeare and Dryden in the Nineteenth Century: John Philip Kemble’s Pastiche of ‘Antony and Cleopatra'”
        • R. V. Young, “‘To His Coy Mistress’ as Characterization”
        • Carol Sherman, “The Deferral of Textual Authority in __La Relhdeuse__”
        • G.M. Maclean, “So What _Does_ Thomas Gray’s ‘Progress of Poesy’ Have To Do with Progress?”
        • Patrick Scott, “The Philological Generation Reconsidered: College English Teaching at South Carolina, 1880-1920”
        • Joseph F. Renahan, “The Imperial Intellect and the Select Minority: Ideas of Newman and Ortega y Gasset on the Mission of the University”
        • Deborah Baker Wyrick, “Hank Morgan: Linguistic Entrepreneur”
        • John Lamiman, “‘Walking in Breath and Air’: Orality and the Presence of the Past in the Fiction of William Faulkner”
        • Kieran Quinlan, “Their Language, So Familiar And So Foreign: The English Tongue And Its Irish Voice”
      • Postscript 3.1
        • Postscript 3.1 Preface
        • Ina Rae Hark, “A Frontier Closes in Brooklyn: ‘Death of a Salesman’ and the Turner Thesis”
        • Mary Hurley Moran, “The Fiction of Margaret Atwood: A Critique of Popular Culture”
        • Gary Ljungquist, “Modalities Of Silence In Frisch And Puig”
        • Patrick Brantlinger, “Raymond Williams: From ‘Culture’ to ‘Community'”
        • Thomas Deveny, “Transformation of a Classical Mythos: The Role of Hymen in the Spanish Renaissance Epithalamium”
        • James Thompson, “The Art of Courtship or Business in a Bad Market”
        • Caroline Zilboorg, “The Fact and Idea of Slave Revolt: A Vehicle for Exploring Self and Other in Twentieth-Century Novels”
        • Elizabeth Langland, “Promises Not Kept: Sexual Infidelity and the Vengeful George Eliot”
        • Denise N. Baker, “Chaucer’s ‘Clerk’s Tale’ and the Monstrous Critics”
        • Earl J. Wilcox, “The Philological Association of the Carolinas: 1977-1985”
      • Postscript 4.1
      • Postscript 5.1
      • Postscript 6.1
      • Postscript 7.1
      • Postscript 8.1
      • Postscript 9.1
      • Postscript 10.1
  • Submission Information

Pamela Richardson, “Boys, Girls, and Trains: Ambiguous Gender Roles in E. Nesbit’s _The Railway Children_”

Citation Information:

Richardson, Pamela. “Boys, Girls, and Trains: Ambiguous Gender Roles in E. Nesbit’s _The Railway Children_.” Postscript, vol. 24, no. 1, 2007, pp. 84-101.

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