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Mary Poppins in Popular Culture
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Mary Poppins in Popular Culture

By: Renáta Lengyel-Marosi

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Hermione's bag, Nanny McPhee's magic—all trace their lineage to Mary Poppins. The first book of its kind, this collection explores her vast legacy, tracing her iconic personality, teaching methods, and magical accessories through popular films, TV shows, and books.

Hermione’s bottomless bag; Paddington’s hard stare; Nanny McPhee’s mysterious and magical personality; Yondu’s flying arrow. These seemingly unrelated characters, personality traits and magical belongings all…
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Hermione’s bottomless bag; Paddington’s hard stare; Nanny McPhee’s mysterious and magical personality; Yondu’s flying arrow. These seemingly unrelated characters, personality traits and magical belongings all merge under Mary Poppins’s umbrella.

Australian-born P. L. Travers’s iconic English governess has been entertaining readers worldwide since 1934. Over time, the audience for Mary Poppins has only grown as a result of various film and stage adaptations (e.g., Disney’s Mary Poppins in 1964 and 2018).

This book aims to inform those professionals who are eager to discover more about the connection between popular culture and children’s literature concerning Mary Poppins. It is the first to collect and introduce films, sitcoms and other books that have adapted Mary Poppins’s most characteristic personality traits (such as her bitter-sweet ironic mood), unusual teaching methods, and her use of magical accessories (such as her umbrella and carpet bag).

Mgr Renáta Lengyel-Marosi, PhD, works at J. Selye University in Komárno, Slovakia. Currently, she is an assistant professor at the Department of English Language and Literature. She gained her PhD in English children’s literature from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. She has been conducting research on Victorian fairy tales and popular culture and twentieth-century English and American children’s literature (with particular attention to P. L. Travers’s Mary Poppins) for seven years. Lengyel-Marosi has published a textbook (Culture and History of Great Britain), a workbook (The Culture and History of the USA), eight chapters from edited books (e.g., “Mary Poppins: the Subversive Magic Helper” and “Buddhism in P. L. Travers’s Mary Poppins Novels”), six articles (e.g., “Meeting Mary–Meeting Your Self: The Functions of Dreams in the Mary Poppins Books”), a review, and co-edited a conference proceeding.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-0268-1
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-0268-6
  • Date of Publication: 2024-05-01

Paperback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-4238-1
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4238-5
  • Date of Publication: 2025-01-27

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-0364-0269-X
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-0269-3
  • Date of Publication: 2025-01-27
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  • BIC: DSY, JFCA
  • THEMA: DSY, JBCC1
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