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Consumerism and American girls' literature, 1860-1940 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Consumerism and American girls' literature, 1860-1940 // Peter Stoneley.
remainder title:	Consumerism & American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940
Author:	Stoneley, Peter,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 167 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Children's stories, American - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485664
ISBN:	9780511485664 (ebook)

Consumerism and American girls' literature, 1860-1940 /
Stoneley, Peter,

Consumerism and American girls' literature, 1860-1940 /Consumerism & American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940Peter Stoneley. - 1 online resource (x, 167 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;134. - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;165..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction: "Buying into womanhood" -- pt. 1. Emergence. The fate of modesty -- Magazines and money -- Dramas of exclusion -- pt. 2. Fulfillment. Romantic speculations -- Preparing for leisure -- Serial pleasures -- pt. 3. Revision. The clean and the dirty -- "Black Tuesday" -- Conclusion.

Why did the figure of the girl come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? In Consumerism and American Girls' Literature Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalized for the girl reader the ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence. He explores why and how a scenario of 'buying into womanhood' became, between 1860 and 1940, one of the nation's central allegories, one of its favourite means of negotiating social change. From Jo March to Nancy Drew, girls' fiction operated in dynamic relation to consumerism, performing a series of otherwise awkward manoeuvres: between country and metropolis, uncouth and unspoilt, modern and anti-modern. Covering a wide range of works and authors, this book will be of interest to cultural and literary scholars alike.

ISBN: 9780511485664 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

585322
Children's stories, American
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PS374.G55 / S86 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.40992827

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