The awkward age in women's popular fiction, 1850-1900 : girls and the transition to womanhood /

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Bilston investigates how writers portrayed female adolescence and discusses why women authors so often centred on adolescent heroines. She considers how representations of the turbulent disaffected adolescent laid the foundation for the feminist New Woman heroine at the end of the 19th century.

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Bilston, Sarah
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Clarendon, 2004.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
Bilston investigates how writers portrayed female adolescence and discusses why women authors so often centred on adolescent heroines. She considers how representations of the turbulent disaffected adolescent laid the foundation for the feminist New Woman heroine at the end of the 19th century.
Umfang:
1 online resource (viii, 255 p.).
Anmerkungen:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index.
Schriftenreihe:
Oxford English monographs The awkward age in women's popular fiction, 1850-1900
ISBN:
9786610757817
0-19-155676-9
1-280-75781-7
1-4237-7353-5
Schlagworte:
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Popular literature > Great Britain > History and criticism.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Maturation (Psychology) in literature.
Teenage girls in literature.
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