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Girls' series fiction and American popular culture / edited by LuElla D'Amico.
Van Pelt Library PS374.C454 G57 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Children and youth in popular culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories, American--History and criticism.
- Children's stories, American.
- Serialized fiction--United States--History and criticism.
- Serialized fiction.
- Children's literature in series--History and criticism.
- Children's literature in series.
- Girls--Books and reading--United States--History--20th century.
- Girls.
- Girls--Books and reading.
- American fiction.
- History.
- United States.
- Girls--Books and reading--United States--History--21st century.
- Girls in literature.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 299 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
- Contents:
- Introduction: girls' series fiction and American popular culture / LuElla D'Amico
- Louisa May Alcott's theater of time / Marlowe Daly-Galeano
- Queering the Katy series: disability, emotion, and imagination in the novels of Susan Coolidge / Eva Lupold
- Working girl: the value of girl labor in the five Little Peppers book series / Christiane E. Farnan
- A spectacle of girls: L. Frank Baum, women reporters, and the man behind the screen in early twentieth-century America / Paige Gray
- Nancy Drew's shadow: Trixie Belden and a case for imperfection / Michael Cornelius
- The Bob-Whites of the Belden-Wheeler detective agency: gender, class, and race in the Trixie Belden series, 1948-1986 / Carolyn Cocca
- Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden: girl detectives, role models, and feminist icons / Nichole Bogarosh
- Cherry Ames: a new woman for the 1940s / Linda Simon
- From Betsy-Tacy to the blog: diary-keeping, self-narrative and adolescent identity in American girls' books / Megan Friddle
- Girl-sized views of history: political consciousness in the American girl series / Mariko Turk
- I like sports and you like clothes, but we both love babies!: problems of identity, voice, and indoctrination in the Baby-Sitters club series / Mary Bronstein
- Fancy Nancy: precocious or precious? / Lori Johnson and Lisa L Laurier
- Beyond cruel: female heroines and third-wave feminism in the Vampire Academy / Janine Darragh
- Growing up in the 21st century: pretty little liars and their pretty little devices / Grace Halden.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Girls' series fiction and American popular culture.
- ISBN:
- 9781498517621
- 1498517625
- OCLC:
- 930997595
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