Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940

Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940

by Peter Stoneley
Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940

Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940

by Peter Stoneley

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521821872
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 03/27/2003
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture , #134
Pages: 178
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

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).

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. 'Black Tuesday'; Conclusion; Notes; Index.
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