The Girl's Own: Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915

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Claudia Nelson, Lynne Vallone
University of Georgia Press, 1.6.2010 - 312 sivua

The eleven contributors to The Girl's Own explore British and American Victorian representations of the adolescent girl by drawing on such contemporary sources as conduct books, housekeeping manuals, periodicals, biographies, photographs, paintings, and educational treatises. The institutions, practices, and literatures discussed reveal the ways in which the Girl expressed her independence, as well as the ways in which she was presented and controlled. As the contributors note, nineteenth-century visions of girlhood were extremely ambiguous. The adolescent girl was a fascinating and troubling figure to Victorian commentators, especially in debates surrounding female sexuality and behavior.

The Girl's Own combines literary and cultural history in its discussion of both British and American texts and practices. Among the topics addressed are the nineteenth-century attempt to link morality and diet; the making of heroines in biographies for girls; Lewis Carroll's and John Millais's iconographies of girlhood in, respectively, their photographs and paintings; genre fiction for and by girls; and the effort to reincorporate teenage unwed mothers into the domestic life of Victorian America.

 

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Vegetarianism
11
Biographies
52
A Manuscript Magazine
71
Eliza Lynn Linton
98
John Everett Millais
124
Lewis Carrolls Photographs
156
Liberal Feminist Ideals
194
At Work
243
Putting Good
259
Contributors
285
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Claudia Nelson is a professor of English at Texas A&M University. She is author or editor of numerous books including Family Ties in Victorian England and Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption in America, 1850–1929.

Lynne Vallone is a professor of childhood studies and English at Rutgers University. She is the author or editor of numerous works including Disciplines of Virtue: Girls' Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries and The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature.

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OtsikkoThe Girl's Own: Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915
ToimittajatClaudia Nelson, Lynne Vallone
Painoskuvitettu
KustantajaUniversity of Georgia Press, 2010
ISBN0820336955, 9780820336954
Pituus312 sivua
  
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