TY - BOOK ID - 77861152 TI - Consumerism and American girls' literature, 1860-1940 PY - 2003 SN - 1107136725 1280162589 113914894X 0511121253 0511061943 0511055617 0511305680 0511485662 0511070403 9780511061943 9780511121258 9780511070402 9780521821872 0521821878 9786610162581 6610162581 9780511485664 0521821878 9780521035750 0521035759 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Children's stories, American KW - Girls in literature. KW - American fiction KW - Young adult fiction, American KW - Girls KW - Consumption (Economics) in literature. KW - Women and literature KW - Literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Women authors KW - Books and reading KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77861152 AB - Why did the figure of the girl come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? In Consumerism and American Girls' Literature Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalized for the girl reader the ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence. He explores why and how a scenario of 'buying into womanhood' became, between 1860 and 1940, one of the nation's central allegories, one of its favourite means of negotiating social change. From Jo March to Nancy Drew, girls' fiction operated in dynamic relation to consumerism, performing a series of otherwise awkward manoeuvres: between country and metropolis, uncouth and unspoilt, modern and anti-modern. Covering a wide range of works and authors, this book will be of interest to cultural and literary scholars alike. ER -