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Girls' series fiction and American popular culture
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- Creator
- edited by LuElla D'Amico
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 299 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781498517645, 9781498517621, 1498517641, 1498517633, 1498517625
- OCLC
- ocn930997595
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Children's stories, American -- History and criticism.
- Serialized fiction -- United States -- History and criticism.
- Children's literature in series -- History and criticism.
- Girls -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- 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.