Kristen B. Proehl

Battling Girlhood (eBook, ePUB)

Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From Jo March of Little Women (1868) to Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games (2008), the American tomboy figure has evolved into an icon of modern girlhood and symbol of female empowerment. Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature traces the development of the tomboy figure from its origins in nineteenth-century sentimental novels to twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and film.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429842023
• Artikelnr.: 56832718

Autorenporträt

Kristen B Proehl is Assistant Professor, Department of English, SUNY-The College at Brockport, Fall 2013-present.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Tomboys in Rag Alley: Understanding Cap Black and the Sentimental
Tradition
2 Teaching Jo: Philanthropy, Education, and the Tomboy Trajectory in Louisa
May Alcott's Trilogy
3 Tomboys on the Prairie: Violence, Discipline, and Community in the
Little House Series
4 Queer Sentiments: Tomboyism and Familial Belonging in Carson McCullers's
The Member of the Wedding
5 Scout as Social Critic: Sympathetic Alliances in To Kill a Mockingbird
6 Beasts of the Southern Wild: Queer Childhood, Race, and the Dystopian
South
Coda
Works Cited
Index

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Tomboys in Rag Alley: Understanding Cap Black and the Sentimental Tradition

2 Teaching Jo: Philanthropy, Education, and the Tomboy Trajectory in Louisa May Alcott's Trilogy

3 Tomboys on the Prairie: Violence, Discipline, and Community in the Little House Series

4 Queer Sentiments: Tomboyism and Familial Belonging in Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding

5 Scout as Social Critic: Sympathetic Alliances in To Kill a Mockingbird

6 Beasts of the Southern Wild: Queer Childhood, Race, and the Dystopian South

Coda



Works Cited

Index