| Description |
ix, 193 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The whole of the moon: L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series / K.L. Poe -- Gender, class, and domesticity in the Isabel Carleton series / Kathleen Chamberlain -- Community and character: a comparison of Josephine Lawrence's Linda Lane series and classic orphan fiction / Deidre A. Johnson -- Mobile and modern heroines: early twentieth-century girls' automobile series / Nancy Tillman Romalov -- Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, and Woodcraft Girls: the ideology of girls' scouting novels, 1910-1935 / Sherrie A. Inness -- A companion to history: Maud Hart Lovelaces's Betsy-Tacy books / Maureen E. Reed -- "You are needed, desperately needed!": Cherry Ames in World War II ; The secret of the feminist heroine: the search for values in Nancy Drew and Judy Bolton / Sally E. Parry -- Nancy Drew as new girl wonder: solving it all for the 1930s / Deborah L. Siegel |
| Summary |
This collection is the first anthology to bring together a broad range of critical essays on girls' series fiction from established scholars |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Drew, Nancy (Fictitious character)
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Children's stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Children's literature in series -- Bibliography.
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Popular culture -- United States -- History.
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Girls -- Books and reading -- United States.
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Sex role in literature.
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Girls in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Bibliography.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Bibliographies.
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| Author |
Inness, Sherrie A.
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| LC no. |
96037500 |
| ISBN |
0879727357 (clothbound) |
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9780879727352 (clothbound) |
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0879727365 (paperback) |
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9780879727369 (paperback) |
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