Out of Reach - The Ideal Girl in American Girls Serial Literature

Summary

This volume traces the journey of the ideal girl through American girls’ series in the 20th century. Out of Reach illuminates the ways in which the ideal girl trope accommodates social changes, taking in that which makes it stronger and further solidifying its core.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Harper, Harper Kate
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2019
• EAN: 9780367330811
• ISBN: 978-0-367-33081-1
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Children's Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form