Beyond Nancy Drew (eBook, ePUB)

U.S. Girls' Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century
Redaktion: D'Amico, Luella; Hamilton-Honey, Emily

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the narratives of series heroines that preceded and followed Nancy Drew, each in relation to their social, historical, and economic environments. Covering heroines including Miss Pickerell, Madge Sterling, and Polly the Powers Model, among others, this book illustrates that the recovery of stolen inheritances during the Great Depression serves different social ends than, for example, fighting Germans on an international stage. This book expands scholarship that tends to focus on Nancy Drew by drawing attention to the stories of some other "lost" heroines of twentieth century U.S. series fiction. Organized by time period, the chapters give insight into the cultural landscape that perpetuated the popularity of these heroines in their respective eras, how these series reflected the experiences of readers across the decades, and their continued impact well into the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666946680
• Artikelnr.: 74939047

Autorenporträt

LuElla D'Amico is associate professor of English and coordinator of the women's and gender studies program at the University of the Incarnate Word. Emily Hamilton-Honey is associate professor of English and humanities at SUNY Canton.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Imperfect Adventures: 'Relatable' Heroines in
Twentieth-Century Girls' Series Fiction
LuElla D'Amico and Emily Hamilton-Honey
Chapter 1: Betty Wales: From Series Book Heroine to Lifestyle Brand
Jill Hobgood
Chapter 2: Adventure, Mystery, and Fashion: On Fashion and the Modelling
Profession in Polly the Powers Model: The Puzzle of the Haunted Camera
Erika Johansson Lunding
Chapter 3: Finding the Right Formula, or How The Madge Sterling Series
Provided Mildred Wirt (Benson) with the Perfect Formula for Writing
Children's Mystery Series
Todd Latoski
Chapter 4: Before Nancy Drew: American Girls' Series Fiction of the 1920s
Susan Ingalls Lewis
Chapter 5: On Being Glad: Pollyanna and Stoic Thought
LuElla D'Amico and Gregory Eiselein
Chapter 6: "To See If College Could Make Half the Woman of Me That It Made
of My Mother": The Beverly Gray Series as a Mid-Century Return to
Progressive Era Girls' Series Fiction
Emily Hamilton-Honey
Chapter 7: Maida Westabrook: Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin's Little Lady
Bountiful
Robin Cadwallader
Chapter 8: Miss Pickerell Tackles the Stereotypes: Gender, Science
Education, and Mid-century Science Fiction
Liz W. Faber
Chapter 9: "More like Americans": Sydney Taylor's Queering of Historical
Fiction Girls' Series Melanie J. Fishbane
Chapter 10: "To prove their worth in a man's world": Depicting and
Encouraging White Women's Growing Professional Opportunities in Betty
Baxter Anderson's 1940s Career Novels Karen Keely
Chapter 11: Inventing the Career Girl Narrative in Vicki Barr
Michael Cornelius
Chapter 12: Student Dancer: Education, Community, and Love in Regina J.
Woody's Dance-Career Novels
Jill E. Anderson