| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Children and youth in popular culture |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
This collection explores the influence of girls' series books on popular American culture and girls' everyday experiences. It explores the cultural work that the series genre performs, contemplating the books' messages about subjects including race, gender, and education, and examines girl fiction within a variety of disciplinary contexts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Children's stories, American -- History and criticism
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Serialized fiction -- United States -- History and criticism
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Children's literature in series -- History and criticism
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Girls -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Girls -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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Girls in literature.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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American fiction
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Children's literature in series
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Children's stories, American
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Girls -- Books and reading
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Girls in literature
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Serialized fiction
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism
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History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
D'Amico, LuElla, editor.
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| LC no. |
2016007788 |
| ISBN |
9781498517645 |
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1498517641 |
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