Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521821872)

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
ISBN-10: 0521821878
ISBN-13: 9780521821872
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/27/2003
Pages: 178
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d