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Rediscovering Nancy Drew

Author : Carolyn Stewart Dyer
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 0877455015
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (774 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering Nancy Drew written by Carolyn Stewart Dyer and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rediscovering Nancy Drew is a rich collection of literary memories and insightful cultural comments."--Journal of Children's Literature "Nancy, especially the Nancy of the original story, is our bright heroine, chasing down the shadows, conquering our worst fears, giving us a glimpse of our brave and better selves, proving to everybody exactly how admirable and wonderful a thing it is to be a girl. Thank you, Nancy Drew."--Nancy Pickard "Nancy Drew belongs to a moment in feminist history; it is a moment, I suggest, that we celebrate, allowing ourselves the satisfaction of praising her for what she dared and forgiving her for what she failed to undertake or understand."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun "Rediscovering Nancy Drew lights up the territory. It informs, delights, and acknowledges through love and scholarship a debt long overdue."--Dale H. Ross In 1991, women staff and faculty at the University of Iowa discovered that the pseudonymous author of the original Nancy Drew books, Carolyn Keene, was none other than Mildred Wirt Benson, the first person to earn a master's degree in journalism at Iowa. The excitement caused by their discovery led to the 1993 Nancy Drew Conference, which explored the remarkable passion for Nancy Drew that spans a wide spectrum of American society. The result: a lively collaboration of essays by and interviews with mystery writers, collectors, publishers, librarians, scholars, journalists, and fans which presents a spirited, informative, totally enjoyable tribute to the driver of that blue roadster so many readers have coveted.

Nancy Drew and Company

Author : Sherrie A. Inness
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879727369
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Nancy Drew and Company written by Sherrie A. Inness and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine critical essays contribute to the accelerating academic investigation into girls' fiction as mechanics of gender formation in the 20th century. Among the series they discuss are Ann of Green Gables, Isabel Carleton, Linda Lane, Betsy-Tacy, and several focusing on automobiles, as well as Nancy herself. They also consider Girl Scouts and related organizations and books furthering the effort of World War II. No personal recollections are included. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Crime Fictions

Author : François Gallix
Publisher : Presses Paris Sorbonne
ISBN 13 : 9782840503491
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Crime Fictions written by François Gallix and published by Presses Paris Sorbonne. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pinay Power

Author : Melinda L. de Jesús
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135413479
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Pinay Power written by Melinda L. de Jesús and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-03-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together for the first time critical work by Pinays of different generations and varying political and personal perspectives to chart the history of the Filipina experience.

Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860–1940

Author : Peter Stoneley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139436740
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860–1940 written by Peter Stoneley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the figure of the girl come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? In Consumerism and American Girls' Literature Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalized for the girl reader the ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence. He explores why and how a scenario of 'buying into womanhood' became, between 1860 and 1940, one of the nation's central allegories, one of its favourite means of negotiating social change. From Jo March to Nancy Drew, girls' fiction operated in dynamic relation to consumerism, performing a series of otherwise awkward manoeuvres: between country and metropolis, uncouth and unspoilt, modern and anti-modern. Covering a wide range of works and authors, this book will be of interest to cultural and literary scholars alike.

Fantasy Girls

Author : Elyce Rae Helford
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742579697
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Fantasy Girls written by Elyce Rae Helford and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-05-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection on women in American television in the 90s uncovers a cultural obsession with tough yet sexy heroines in mythical pasts, the 'girl power' present, and utopic futures. Xena, Buffy, Sabrina, and a host of other characters have become household words, as well as icons of pop culture 'feminism.' Their popularity makes for successful programming, however, how much does this trend truly represent a contemporary feminist breakthrough? And what does it mean for feminism in the next few decades? Fantasy Girls: Navigating the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television seeks to explore as well as challenge the power and the promises of this recent media phenomenon. Such TV programming offers the exciting opportunity to rethink established gender norms, but how far is it really pushing the limits of the status quo? Amidst the exuberant optimism of fanzines and doting fan websites, the contributors to this volume endeavor to provide us with a much needed critical analysis of this contemporary trend. These essays explore the contradictions and limitations inherent in the genre, forcing readers to take a fresh and critical look through a variety of lenses including girl power, postfeminism, cyborg feminism, disability politics, queer studies, and much more. Programs covered are Babylon 5, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Disney's Cinderella, Lois and Clark, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Star Trek: Voyager, The X-Files, Third Rock from the Sun, and Xena: Warrior Princess.

The Clubwomen's Daughters

Author : Gwen Tarbox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131777602X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Clubwomen's Daughters written by Gwen Tarbox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides an interdisciplinary cultural study of the evolution of Progressive-era girls' peer groups, their representation in popular girls' fiction, and the influence of these communities, both real and fictional, upon young women's lives during the years leading up to the Second World War. The writers featured in this volume were the first generation of New Women, whose ability to enter traditionally male spaces such as the college campus, the playing field, the wilderness, and the office was facilitated by their membership in women's clubs, political and religious organizations, and athletic teams. Eager to promote the idea that same-sex group activities would lead to female empowerment, these clubwomen targeted young girls as their intended audience and developed an idealized fictional portrait of female cooperation that girls could replicate in their own lives. By adding to our knowledge of girls' cultural history, the author gives voice to a segment of the population that was, and still is, at the center of society's debates concerning the appropriate roles for girls and women. Authors discussed include Louisa May Alcott, Emma Dunham Kelley, Laura Lee Hope (psuedonym for Lilian Garis), Carolyn Keene (pseudonym for Mildred Wirt Benson), and Margaret Sutton.

Necessary Trouble

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 037460181X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Necessary Trouble written by Drew Gilpin Faust and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions—not only in global affairs but in American society and Americans’ lives. A privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For Drew Gilpin, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial hierarchy proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become “well adjusted” and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed, she found resistance was necessary for her survival. During the 1960s, through her love of learning and her active engagement in the civil rights, student, and antiwar movements, Drew forged a path of her own—one that would eventually lead her to become a historian of the very conflicts that were instrumental in shaping the world she grew up in. Culminating in the upheavals of 1968, Necessary Trouble captures a time of rapid change and fierce reaction in one young woman’s life, tracing the transformations and aftershocks that we continue to grapple with today. Includes black-and-white images

Buffy Meets the Academy

Author : Kevin K. Durand
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786453745
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Buffy Meets the Academy written by Kevin K. Durand and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents serious academic scholarship on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It differs from other works because it uses Buffy as a primary text and not as a secondary instrument to explore other concepts. In doing so, it demonstrates that popular culture studies should be approached with the same serious attention that is paid to classic philosophy and other long-established fields. Essays assemble the Buffy canon and explore how Buffy treats Shakespeare, comics, power, sisterhood, apocalyptic revisionism, folklore, feminism, redemption, patriarchy, identity and education. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

The Girls' History and Culture Reader

Author : Miriam Forman-Brunell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252077687
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Girls' History and Culture Reader written by Miriam Forman-Brunell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides scholars, instructors, and students with influential essays that have defined the field of American girls' history and culture. Covering girlhood and the relationships between girls and women, the volume tackles pivotal themes such as education, work, play, sexuality, consumption, and the body.

Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature

Author : Shelby Wolf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136913572
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature written by Shelby Wolf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary handbook pulls together in one volume the research on children's and young adult literature which is currently scattered across three intersecting disciplines: education, English, and library and information science.

Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection [2 volumes]

Author : Mitzi M. Brunsdale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313345317
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection [2 volumes] written by Mitzi M. Brunsdale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to 24 iconic figures, real and fictional, that have shaped the detective/mystery genre of popular literature. Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes is an insightful look at one of our most popular and diverse fictional genres, providing a guided tour of mystery and crime writing by focusing on two dozen of the field's most enduring creations and creators. Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection spans the history of the detective story with series of critical entries on the field's most evocative names, from the originator of the form, Edgar Allan Poe, to its first popular running character, Sherlock Holmes; from the Golden Age of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Charlie Chan—in fiction and films—to small screen heroes, such as Columbo and Jessica Fletcher. Also included are other accomplished practitioners of the craft of mystery/crime storytelling, including Agatha Christie, Tony Hillerman, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Nancy Drew and Her Sister Sleuths

Author : Michael G. Cornelius
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nancy Drew and Her Sister Sleuths written by Michael G. Cornelius and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays focuses on the girl sleuth, made famous by Nancy Drew but also characterized by other detectives like Cherry Ames, Trixie Belden, Linda Carlton, and, in today's world, by Veronica Mars and Hermione Granger. Solving mysteries is what each of the essayists strives to do, examining the conundrums these sleuths have left in their wake"--Provided by publisher.

Delinquents and Debutantes

Author : Sherrie A. Inness
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081473765X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Delinquents and Debutantes written by Sherrie A. Inness and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the Girl Scouts help form girls' experiences of what it means to be a girl, and later a woman, in our society. The essays address such topics as board games and the socialization of adolescent girls, dolls and political ideologies, Nancy Drew and the Filipina American experience, the queering of girls' detective fiction, and female juvenile delinquency to demonstrate how cultural discourses shape both the young and teenage girl in America. Although girls' culture has until now received comparatively little attention from scholars, this work confirms that understanding the culture of girls is essential to understanding how gender works in our society. Making a significant contribution to a long-neglected area of social and cultural inquiry, Delinquents and Debutantes will be of central interest to those in women's studies, American studies, history, literature, and cultural studies.

The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors

Author : Bernard A. Drew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031307819X
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors written by Bernard A. Drew and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on individuals writing in the '90s, but also includes 12 classic authors (e.g., Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, J.R.R. Tolkien) who are still widely read by teens. It also covers some authors known primarily for adult literature (e.g., Stephen King) and some who write mainly for middle readers but are also popular among young adults (e.g., Betsy Byars). An affordable alternative to multivolume publications, this book makes a great collection development tool and resource for author studies. It will also help readers find other books by and about their favorite writers.

Girl Sleuth

Author : Melanie Rehak
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547539894
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Girl Sleuth written by Melanie Rehak and published by HMH. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story behind the iconic fictional detective is “a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing” (The Seattle Times). An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year The plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930—and eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women’s libbers) to enter the pantheon of American culture. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers’ lives. Here, in a narrative with all the page-turning pace of Nancy’s adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pulp heroine to icon? The brainchild of children’s book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy was brought to life by two women: Mildred Wirt Benson, a pioneering journalist from Iowa, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, a well-bred wife and mother who took over her father’s business empire as CEO. In this century-spanning, “absorbing and delightful” story, the author traces their roles—and Nancy’s—in forging the modern American woman (The Wall Street Journal). “It’s truly fun to see behind the scenes of the girl sleuth’s creation.” —Publishers Weekly “As much a social history of the times as a book about the popular series . . . Those who followed the many adventures of Nancy Drew and her friends will be fascinated with the behind-the-scenes stories of just who Carolyn Keene really was.” —School Library Journal “Sheds light on perhaps the most successful writing franchise of all time and also the cultural and historic changes through which it passed. Grab your flashlights, girls. The mystery of Carolyn Keene is about to begin.” —Karen Joy Fowler

Defining Print Culture for Youth

Author : Anne Lundin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313052409
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Defining Print Culture for Youth written by Anne Lundin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, this volume features a selection of ten papers compiled from the Center's second national conference, accompanied by a detailed introduction. Presented by scholars from diverse backgrounds, the essays center on the emerging, interdisciplinary field of print culture. They examine children's literature and related print materials from a cultural perspective and discuss the influence of ideological, political, and material factors on the reader. Moreover, the authors join a cultural debate over the nature of childhood in specific historical periods.