Beyond Nancy Drew

Beyond Nancy Drew

U.S. Girls' Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century

Hamilton-Honey, Emily; Latoski, Todd; Johansson Lunding, Erika; D'Amico, LuElla; Ingalls Lewis, Susan; Eiselein, Gregory; Hamilton-Honey, Emily; D'Amico, LuElla; Hobgood, Jill; Cadwallader, Robin

Lexington Books

06/2024

284

Dura

9781666946673

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction: Imperfect Adventures: 'Relatable' Heroines in Twentieth-Century Girls' Series Fiction

LuElla D'Amico and Emily Hamilton-Honey

Chapter 1: Betty Wales: From Series Book Heroine to Lifestyle Brand

Jill Hobgood

Chapter 2: Adventure, Mystery, and Fashion: On Fashion and the Modelling Profession in Polly the Powers Model: The Puzzle of the Haunted Camera

Erika Johansson Lunding

Chapter 3: Finding the Right Formula, or How The Madge Sterling Series Provided Mildred Wirt (Benson) with the Perfect Formula for Writing Children's Mystery Series

Todd Latoski

Chapter 4: Before Nancy Drew: American Girls' Series Fiction of the 1920s

Susan Ingalls Lewis

Chapter 5: On Being Glad: Pollyanna and Stoic Thought

LuElla D'Amico and Gregory Eiselein

Chapter 6: "To See If College Could Make Half the Woman of Me That It Made of My Mother": The Beverly Gray Series as a Mid-Century Return to Progressive Era Girls' Series Fiction

Emily Hamilton-Honey

Chapter 7: Maida Westabrook: Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin's Little Lady Bountiful

Robin Cadwallader

Chapter 8: Miss Pickerell Tackles the Stereotypes: Gender, Science Education, and Mid-century Science Fiction

Liz W. Faber

Chapter 9: "More like Americans": Sydney Taylor's Queering of Historical Fiction Girls' Series Melanie J. Fishbane

Chapter 10: "To prove their worth in a man's world": Depicting and Encouraging White Women's Growing Professional Opportunities in Betty Baxter Anderson's 1940s Career Novels Karen Keely

Chapter 11: Inventing the Career Girl Narrative in Vicki Barr

Michael Cornelius

Chapter 12: Student Dancer: Education, Community, and Love in Regina J. Woody's Dance-Career Novels

Jill E. Anderson
career novels;Children's literature;detective fiction;Girlhood;Girlhood studies;juvenile fiction;young adult literature