Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture at the Fin de Siècle

Daughters of Today

AvBeth Rodgers

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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This book examines the construction of adolescent girlhood across a range of genres in the closing decades of the nineteenth century.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-06-16
Mått:148 x 210 x 32 mm
Vikt:356 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319813318

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Beth Rodgers is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University, UK. She has published articles on Victorian girls’ literature and culture and is co-editor of Children’s Literature on the Move: Nations, Translations, Migrations (2013), which received the Children’s Literature Association’s honour award in 2015.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Debating and Defining Adolescent Girlhood at the Fin de Siècle.- 1. Classifying Girlhood, Creating Heroines: Aspiration, Community and Competition in the Girl’s Own Paper and the Girl’s Realm.- 2. Making Transitions in fin-de-siècle Girls’ School Stories, 1886-1906.- 3. ‘Flowering into womanhood’? The New Woman and the New Girl.- 4. ‘Development and Arrest of Development’: Sarah Grand’s ‘Girls of Today’.- 5. Professionalizing the Modern Girl: Ella Hepworth Dixon, W.T. Stead and Journalism for Girls.- Coda: Voyaging Out.- Bibliography.- Index.-