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Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Children and Youth in Popular Culture SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (319 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498517645
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular CultureDDC classification:
  • 813.009352342
LOC classification:
  • PS374.C454G57 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 Century -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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.
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Intro -- 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 Century -- Index -- About the Contributors.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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