The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900: Girls and the Transition to Womanhood

by Sarah Bilston

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Tracing evolving treatments of female adolescence through a host of long-forgotten women's fictions, the book reveals that representations of the girl in popular women's literature importantly anticipated depictions of the feminist in the fin de si cle New Woman writing; conservative portrayals of girls' hopes, dreams, and subsequent frustrations helped clear a literary and cultural space for the New Woman's "awakening" to disaffected consciousness.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199272611

ISBN13:9780199272617

Release Date:September 2004

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:272 Pages

Weight:1.08 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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