Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940

Why did the figure of "the girl" come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? Peter Stoneley looks at how women were fictionalized for the girl reader as ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence. Covering a wide range of works and writers, this book is of interest to cultural and literary scholars.

Author: Peter Stoneley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/27/2003
Pages: 178
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780521821872

About the Author
Stoneley, Peter: - Peter Stoneley is Lecturer in the School of English at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic (Cambridge, 1992).