Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture at the Fin de Siecle: Daughters of Today
Beth Rodgers
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Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2AB; 3JH; DSA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
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 siecle. 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 ... Read more
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 siecle. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Condition
New
Weight
464g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319326238
SKU
V9783319326238
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About Beth Rodgers
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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