Peter Stoneley is Lecturer in the School of English at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic (Cambridge, 1992).

'Consumerism and American Girl's Literature will be a welcome addition to undergraduate and postgraduate reading in cultural and gender historic studies.' Literature and History

• List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: 'buying into womanhood'; Part I. Emergence: 1. The fate of modesty; 2. Magazines and money; 3. Dramas of exclusion; Part II. Fulfillment: 4. Romantic speculations; 5. Preparing for leisure; 6. Serial pleasures; Part III. Revision: 7. The clean and the dirty; 8. 'Black Tuesday'; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

Peter Stoneley is Lecturer in the School of English at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic (Cambridge, 1992).

'Consumerism and American Girl's Literature will be a welcome addition to undergraduate and postgraduate reading in cultural and gender historic studies.' Literature and History

• List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: 'buying into womanhood'; Part I. Emergence: 1. The fate of modesty; 2. Magazines and money; 3. Dramas of exclusion; Part II. Fulfillment: 4. Romantic speculations; 5. Preparing for leisure; 6. Serial pleasures; Part III. Revision: 7. The clean and the dirty; 8. 'Black Tuesday'; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

Peter Stoneley is Lecturer in the School of English at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic (Cambridge, 1992).

'Consumerism and American Girl's Literature will be a welcome addition to undergraduate and postgraduate reading in cultural and gender historic studies.' Literature and History

• List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: 'buying into womanhood'; Part I. Emergence: 1. The fate of modesty; 2. Magazines and money; 3. Dramas of exclusion; Part II. Fulfillment: 4. Romantic speculations; 5. Preparing for leisure; 6. Serial pleasures; Part III. Revision: 7. The clean and the dirty; 8. 'Black Tuesday'; Conclusion; Notes; Index.