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

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

Hardcover

Series: Oxford English Monographs

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ISBN10: 0199272611
ISBN13: 9780199272617
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 30 2004
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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 siècle 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.

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