Girl Sleuth - On the Trail of Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton and Cherry Ames

Informationen zum Autor BOBBIE ANN MASON is the author of Feather Crowns (winner of the 1994 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction), Shiloh and Other Stories , Love Life: Stories , In Country , and Spence + Lila . She resides in Kentucky. Klappentext In this long out-of-print work, Bobbie Ann Mason reminisces about her childhood reading of the girl detective series books. With a nostalgic but critical eye, she draws on observations of popular culture and on memories of growing up in the fifties to describe the pleasures and effects of reading mysteries. Mason's recollections of a rural youth spent longing for mysteries to solve represent a quintessential American girlhood experience. Holding up Nancy Drew as a model of "the conventional and the revolutionary in one compact package", Mason shows how the series heroines encouraged young readers to "dream big" and stay open to life's possibilities, dished up antidotes to spoon-fed notions of traditional femininity, and amiably subverted the literary snobbery of child experts, librarians, and book reviewers. Zusammenfassung In this long-out-of-print work, which was first published in 1975, Bobbie Ann Mason examines the girl detective in her various guises through a combination of childhood reminiscences and insights as a fiction writer and observer of American popular culture.

Product details

• Authors: Bobbie Mason, Bobbie Ann Mason
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.1995
• EAN: 9780820317397
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-1739-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Mystery & Detective, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature