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Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture at the Fin de Siècle

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256 Seiten
Englisch
Springer International Publishingerschienen am06.10.20161st ed. 2016
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.


Beth Rodgers is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University, UK. She has published articles on Victorian girls' literature and culture and is co-editor of Children's Literature on the Move: Nations, Translations, Migrations (2013), which received the Children's Literature Association's honour award in 2015.mehr
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KlappentextThis 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.


Beth Rodgers is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University, UK. She has published articles on Victorian girls' literature and culture and is co-editor of Children's Literature on the Move: Nations, Translations, Migrations (2013), which received the Children's Literature Association's honour award in 2015.
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9783319326245
ProduktartE-Book
EinbandartE-Book
FormatPDF
Format Hinweis1 - PDF Watermark
FormatE107
Erscheinungsjahr2016
Erscheinungsdatum06.10.2016
Auflage1st ed. 2016
ReihePalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Seiten256 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
IllustrationenX, 256 p.
Artikel-Nr.2098098
Rubriken
Genre9200

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Debating and Defining Adolescent Girlhood at the Fin de Siècle.- 1. Classifying Girlhood, Creating Heroines: Aspiration, Community and Competition in the Girl's Own Paper and the Girl's Realm.- 2. Making Transitions in fin-de-siècle Girls' School Stories, 1886-1906.- 3. 'Flowering into womanhood'? The New Woman and the New Girl.- 4. 'Development and Arrest of Development': Sarah Grand's 'Girls of Today'.- 5. Professionalizing the Modern Girl: Ella Hepworth Dixon, W.T. Stead and Journalism for Girls.- Coda: Voyaging Out.- Bibliography.- Index.-mehr

Autor

Beth Rodgers is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University, UK. She has published articles on Victorian girls' literature and culture and is co-editor of Children's Literature on the Move: Nations, Translations, Migrations (2013), which received the Children's Literature Association's honour award in 2015.