Synopses & Reviews
Why did the figure of "the girl" come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? Peter Stoneley looks at how women were fictionalized for the girl reader as ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence. Covering a wide range of works and writers, this book is of interest to cultural and literary scholars.
Synopsis
'In Consumerism and American GirlsâLiterature Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalized for the girl reader ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence. Covering a wide range of works and writers, this book will be of interest to cultural and literary scholars alike.\n
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Synopsis
Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalised for the girl reader ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence.
Synopsis
'Examines how women fictionalised for the girl reader ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence.'
Table of Contents
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. âBlack Tuesdayâ; Conclusion; Notes; Index.