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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798250603321

Titolo

Girls' series fiction and American popular culture / / edited by LuElla D'Amico

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-1764-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Children and Youth in Popular Culture

Disciplina

813/.00992827

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Chapter One: Louisa May Alcott's Theater of Time; Chapter Two: Queering the Katy Series; Chapter Three: Working Girl; Chapter Four: A Spectacle of Girls; Chapter Five: Nancy Drew's Shadow; Chapter Six: The Bob-Whites of the Belden-Wheeler Detective Agency; Chapter Seven: Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden; Chapter Eight: Cherry Ames; Chapter Nine: From Betsy-Tacy to the Blog; Chapter Ten: "Girl-Sized Views" of History; Chapter Eleven: I Like Sports and You Like Clothes, But We Both Love Babies!; Chapter Twelve: Fancy Nancy; Chapter Thirteen: Beyond Cruel

Chapter Fourteen: Growing Up in the Twenty-First CenturyIndex; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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.