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Sisters, schoolgirls, and sleuths : girls' series books in America
- Title
- Sisters, schoolgirls, and sleuths : girls' series books in America / Carolyn Carpan.
- Author
- Carpan, Carolyn.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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| Text | Request in advance | PS374.G55 C37 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 165 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Series books for girls have been popular since the early 1840s, when books about Cousin Lucy, a young girl who learns about the world around her, first appeared. Since then, scores of series books have followed, several of them highly successful, featuring some of the most enduring characters in fiction, such as Nancy Drew. In recent decades, series like The Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley High have become staples for young readers everywhere." "In Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: Girls' Series Books in America, Carolyn Carpan provides a social history of girls' series fiction published in America from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century. Carpan examines popular series, subgenres, themes, and characters found in approximately one hundred series, noting how teenage girls are portrayed in girls' series fiction and how girls' series reflect or subvert the culture of the era in which they are produced. Her study also focuses on the creation, writing, and production of these books."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Scarecrow studies in young adult literature ; 30
- Uniform Title
- Scarecrow studies in young adult literature ; 30.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Victorian and Vassar Girls: Nineteenth-Century Origins of Girls' Series Fiction -- Ch. 2. Schoolgirls and Sorority Sisters: Progressive Era High School and College Series -- Ch. 3. Adventure Girls and the New Woman: From the Progressive Era to the Jazz Generation -- Ch. 4. The Secret of Nancy Drew and Her Sister Sleuths -- Ch. 5. Career Girls and World War II -- Ch. 6. Romances and Revisions: The Junior Novel and the New Nancy Drew -- Ch. 7. Romance Meets Reality: Girls' Series Fiction and the Second Wave of Feminism -- Ch. 8. Sweet Dreams for Teen Queens: Romance Renaissance in the Reagan Era -- Ch. 9. High School Honors! Genre Fiction for Teens -- App. A. Alphabetical List of Series -- App. B. Important Books about Girls Series Fiction.
- ISBN
- 9780810857568 (alk. paper)
- 0810857561 (alk. paper)
- 9780810863958 (ebook)
- 0810863952 (ebook)
- LCCN
- 2008036693
- 99933316195
- OCLC
- ocn245021822
- 245021822
- SCSB-5464712
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries