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Adolescent girlhood and literary culture at the Fin-de-siécle : daughters of today / Beth Rodgers.
Author
Rodgers, Beth
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
©2016
Description
x, 256 pages ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PN56.5.A35 R63 2016
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Teenage girls in literature
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19th century
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Series
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
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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. It argues that there was a preoccupation with defining, characterising and naming adolescent girlhood at the fin de siècle. These 'daughters of today', 'juvenile spinsters' and 'modern girls', as the press variously termed them, occupying a borderland between childhood and womanhood, were seen to be inextricably connected to late nineteenth-century modernity: they were the products of changes taking place in education and employment and of the challenge to traditional conceptions of femininity presented by the Woman Question. The author argues that the shifting nature of the modern adolescent girl made her a malleable cultural figure, and a meeting point for many of the prevalent debates associated with fin-de-siècle society. By juxtaposing diverse material, from children's books and girls' magazines to New Woman novels and psychological studies, the author contextualises adolescent girlhood as a distinct but complex cultural category at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.
Contents
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.
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ISBN
9783319326238
3319326236
3319326244
9783319326245
LCCN
2016946979
OCLC
944474001
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