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Informationen zum Autor LuElla D'Amico is associate professor of English and coordinator of the women's and gender studies program at the University of the Incarnate Word.Emily Hamilton-Honey is associate professor of English and humanities at SUNY Canton. Klappentext This edited collection recovers "lost" girls' series fiction heroines of the twentieth century. The chapters examine the role the heroines' sociohistorical contexts play in the narrative plot lines as well as the series' popularity and relatability for readers. Zusammenfassung This edited collection recovers “lost” girls’ series fiction heroines of the twentieth century. The chapters examine the role the heroines’ sociohistorical contexts play in the narrative plot lines as well as the series’ popularity and relatability for readers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Imperfect Adventures: 'Relatable' Heroines in Twentieth-Century Girls' Series Fiction LuElla D'Amico and Emily Hamilton-HoneyChapter 1: Betty Wales: From Series Book Heroine to Lifestyle BrandJill HobgoodChapter 2: Adventure, Mystery, and Fashion: On Fashion and the Modelling Profession in Polly the Powers Model: The Puzzle of the Haunted Camera Erika Johansson LundingChapter 3: Finding the Right Formula, or How The Madge Sterling Series Provided Mildred Wirt (Benson) with the Perfect Formula for Writing Children's Mystery Series Todd LatoskiChapter 4: Before Nancy Drew: American Girls' Series Fiction of the 1920s Susan Ingalls LewisChapter 5: On Being Glad: Pollyanna and Stoic Thought LuElla D'Amico and Gregory EiseleinChapter 6: "To See If College Could Make Half the Woman of Me That It Made of My Mother": The Beverly Gray Series as a Mid-Century Return to Progressive Era Girls' Series Fiction Emily Hamilton-HoneyChapter 7: Maida Westabrook: Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin's Little Lady Bountiful Robin CadwalladerChapter 8: Miss Pickerell Tackles the Stereotypes: Gender, Science Education, and Mid-century Science Fiction Liz W. FaberChapter 9: "More like Americans": Sydney Taylor's Queering of Historical Fiction Girls' Series Melanie J. FishbaneChapter 10: "To prove their worth in a man's world": Depicting and Encouraging White Women's Growing Professional Opportunities in Betty Baxter Anderson's 1940s Career Novels Karen KeelyChapter 11: Inventing the Career Girl Narrative in Vicki Barr Michael CorneliusChapter 12: Student Dancer: Education, Community, and Love in Regina J. Woody's Dance-Career Novels Jill E. Anderson...
