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Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her
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ISBN: 0151010412 Year: 2005 Publisher: Orlando [etc.] Harcourt

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Female adolescence : psychoanalytic reflections on works of literature
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ISBN: 0300040318 0300034598 9780300034592 9780300040319 Year: 1986 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.): Yale university

Lolitas et petites madones perverses : émergence d'un mythe littéraire
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ISBN: 9782915552591 2915552592 Year: 2007 Publisher: Dijon : Editions universitaires de Dijon,

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Grâce au rapprochement d'une centaine de fictions - d'auteurs célèbres (Cleland, Louÿs, Proust, Svevo, Pirandello, Nabokov, Matzneff, Giardinelli) ou méconnus en France (Heinz von Lichberg, Ian McEwan, Pia Pera, Emily Prager) - cet ouvrage se propose de retracer l'émergence du mythe littéraire de ce que Joyce a nommé la " petite madone perverse " et de ses avatars : nymphettes, femmes-enfants ou lolitas. Né, avec les Lumières, de débris anciens, le type romanesque de la jeune fille délurée, friponne et lascive subit une éclipse partielle à l'époque romantique avant que de connaître un nouvel âge d'or depuis la décadence du naturalisme. La postmodernité consacre son triomphe et en fait un emblème de la culture de masse, une icône de l'érotisme et de la pornographie autant qu'une figure centrale de la littérature savante. Tour à tour funeste, énigmatique et salvatrice, l'adolescente dégourdie est toujours désirable, non seulement parce qu'elle est fraîche et ravissante, mais aussi parce qu'elle détient - aux yeux du nympholepte qui en est entiché et du lecteur qui épouse son regard énamouré - le pouvoir fabuleux de ressusciter le passé et d'apaiser la crainte de l'avenir.


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Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture at the Fin de Siècle : Daughters of Today
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ISBN: 3319326236 3319326244 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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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.

Rediscovering Nancy Drew
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ISBN: 1587290561 9781587290565 0877455007 0877455015 9780877455004 9780877455011 Year: 1995 Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,

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""Rediscovering Nancy Drew is a rich collection of literary memories and insightful cultural comments.""--Journal of Children's Literature""Nancy, especially the Nancy of the original story, is our bright heroine, chasing down the shadows, conquering our worst fears, giving us a glimpse of our brave and better selves, proving to everybody exactly how admirable and wonderful a thing it is to be a girl. Thank you, Nancy Drew.""--Nancy Pickard""Nancy Drew belongs to a moment in feminist history; it is a moment, I suggest, that we celebrate, allowing ourselves the satisfaction of praising her for


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Cognition and girlhood in Shakespeare's world : rethinking female adolescence
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ISBN: 1108933912 1108946011 1108945252 1108844219 1108928714 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This groundbreaking study of girlhood and cognition argues that early moderns depicted female puberty as a transformative event that activated girls' brains in dynamic ways. Mining a variety of genres from Shakespearean plays and medical texts to autobiographical writings, Caroline Bicks shows how 'the change of fourteen years' seemed to gift girls with the ability to invent, judge, and remember what others could or would not. Bicks challenges the presumption that early moderns viewed all female cognition as passive or pathological, demonstrating instead that girls' changing adolescent brains were lightning rods for some of the period's most vital debates about the body and soul, faith and salvation, science and nature, and the place and agency of human perception in the midst of it all.

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English literature --- Teenage girls in literature. --- Puberty --- History and criticism. --- History --- Shakespeare, William, --- Characters --- Girls. --- Critical periods (Biology) --- Sex (Biology) --- Adolescence --- Shakespeare, William --- Shakespear, William, --- Shakspeare, William, --- Šekʻspiri, Uiliam, --- Saixpēr, Gouilliam, --- Shakspere, William, --- Shikisbīr, Wilyam, --- Szekspir, Wiliam, --- Šekspyras, --- Shekspir, Vilʹi︠a︡m, --- Šekspir, Viljem, --- Tsikinya-chaka, --- Sha-shih-pi-ya, --- Shashibiya, --- Sheḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Shaḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Syeiksŭpʻio, --- Shekspir, V. --- Szekspir, William, --- Shakespeare, Guglielmo, --- Shake-speare, William, --- Sha-ō, --- Şekspir, --- Shekspir, Uiliam, --- Shekspir, U. --- Šekspir, Vilijam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Viliyam, --- Shakspir, --- Shekspyr, Vyli︠e︡m, --- Şekspir, Velyam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Villiyam, --- Shēkʻspʻiyr, Vlilliam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākavi, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākaviya, --- Sheḳspier, Ṿilyam, --- Shēkʻspir, --- Shakespeare, --- Śeksper, --- Шекспир, Вильям, --- Шекспир, Уильям, --- שייקספיר, וויליאם, --- שייקספיר, וו., --- שיקספיר, וויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, וילים, --- שכספיר, ו׳ --- שעפקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, וויליאם --- שעקספיער, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, ווילליאם --- שעקספיער, וו., --- שעקספיר --- שעקספיר, וו --- שעקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיר, וויליאמ --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם, --- שעקספיר, וו., --- שעקספיר, װיליאם, --- שעקספיר, װילליאם, --- שעקספיר, װ., --- שעקספער --- שעקספער, וויליאמ --- שקספיר --- שקספיר, וו --- שקספיר, וויליאם --- שקספיר, וויליאם, --- שקספיר, ווילים, --- שקספיר, וילאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם, --- שקספיר, ויליים, --- שקספיר, וילים --- שקספיר, וילים, --- شاكسبير، وليم --- شاكسپير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليام --- شكسبير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليم، --- شكسبير، و. --- شكسپير، وليم --- شكسپير، ويليام --- شيكسبير، وليام --- شيكسبير، وليام.، --- شيكسبير، وليم --- شکسبير، وليم --- وليم شکسبير --- 沙士北亞威廉姆, --- 沙士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉, --- 莎士比亞, --- Cognition in literature. --- Characters.

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