Consumerism and American Girls'' Literature, 1860-1940

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext This book examines how women fictionalised for the girl reader ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence. Zusammenfassung In Consumerism and American Girls' Literature Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalized for the girl reader ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence. Covering a wide range of works and writers! this book will be of interest to cultural and literary scholars alike. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: 'buying into womanhood'; Part I. Emergence: 1. The fate of modesty; 2. Magazines and money; 3. Dramas of exclusion; Part II. Fulfillment: 4. Romantic speculations; 5. Preparing for leisure; 6. Serial pleasures; Part III. Revision: 7. The clean and the dirty; 8. 'Black Tuesday'; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Stoneley, Peter (Queen''s University Belfast) Stoneley
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2003
• EAN: 9780521821872
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82187-2
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies