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Beyond Nancy Drew: U.S. Girls' Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century

Beyond Nancy Drew: U.S. Girls' Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century

Hobgood, Jill
D'Amico, Luella
Hamilton-Honey, Emily

Hardcover

Series: Children and Youth in Popular Culture

Literary CriticismGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1666946672
ISBN13: 9781666946673
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jun 15 2024
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book examines the narratives of series heroines that preceded and followed Nancy Drew, each in relation to their social, historical, and economic environments. Covering heroines including Miss Pickerell, Madge Sterling, and Polly the Powers Model, among others, this book illustrates that the recovery of stolen inheritances during the Great Depression serves different social ends than, for example, fighting Germans on an international stage. This book expands scholarship that tends to focus on Nancy Drew by drawing attention to the stories of some other lost heroines of twentieth century U.S. series fiction. Organized by time period, the chapters give insight into the cultural landscape that perpetuated the popularity of these heroines in their respective eras, how these series reflected the experiences of readers across the decades, and their continued impact well into the twenty-first century.

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