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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 305–331.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of American Girlhood . New Haven : Yale Univ. Press . Katz Wendy J. 2002 . Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum Cincinnati . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . Mason Jennifer . 2005 . Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 883–885.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Allison S. Curseen Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century . By Nazera Sadiq Wright . Champaign : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2016 . xii, 240. Cloth, $95.00 ; paper, $28.00 ; e-book, $19.95 . American Tomboys, 1850–1915 . By Renée M. Sentilles Amherst : Univ...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 33–59.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of childhood that black girlhood represents. For her, “girlhood” is not an extension of childhood but a foreclosure of it, a rushed and often violent introduction to sexual maturity and “knowingness” that precludes childhood innocence. As Wright ( 2016 : 61) argues, “Extreme hardship and danger hasten...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 865–886.
Published: 01 December 2014
...: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in
Native American Literature, 201–3.
Barnard, John Levi. “Ruins amid Ruins: Black Classicism and the Empire of
Slavery,” 361–89.
Barnes, Elizabeth. “Drowning (in) Kittens: The Reproduction of Girlhood in
Victorian America,” 305–31.
Barrish, Phillip...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 184–186.
Published: 01 March 2005
... the grand narrative of American girlhood for
generations Rishoi makes it the cornerstone of a genre she labels women’s
‘‘coming-of-age’’ narratives—fictions and memoirs that chart an often treach-
erous course through the peculiarly modern dangers of female adolescence.
While less concerned with formal...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 517–545.
Published: 01 September 2015
... . Chudacoff Howard P. 1992 . How Old Are You? Age Consciousness in American Culture . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press . Cohoon Lorinda B. 2008 . “‘A Highly Satisfactory Chinaman’: Orientalism and American Girlhood in Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins.” Children's Literature 36...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 347–375.
Published: 01 June 2018
... . Robbins Trina , ed. 2016 . The Complete Wimmen’s Comix . 2 vols. Seattle : Fantagraphics . Robson Catherine . 2001 . Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press . Rosenkrantz Patrick . 2008 . Rebel Visions...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 186–187.
Published: 01 March 2005
... of narratives
that offer resistance to the still dominant Enlightenment paradigms of fixed
identity. She traces this resistance (and its failures) in the versions of rep-
resentative American girlhood offered by Annie Dillard and Anne Moody, in
Janie’s success in ‘‘achieving subjectivity’’ in Zora Neale...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 183–184.
Published: 01 March 2005
... sentimental writing (no matter
that Little Women owes its publishing legs as much to its distance from the con-
ventions of sentimentality as to its evocation of them). Calling Alcott’s drama
of domestic discipline ‘‘arguably the grand narrative of American girlhood for
generations Rishoi makes...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 29–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of a map of la frontera as a paratext early on, tracing the trek from Iguala, Mexico, to Los Angeles, California, reflects the imprint of migrant girlhood on memory and emphasizes how portrait-chronicles, framing each chapter, foreground filiation. Alicia Muñoz and Ariana E. Vigil ( 2019 : 230) explain...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 497–526.
Published: 01 September 2009
... Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroi-
dery, 2 vols. (New York: Knopf, 1993), 1:88–93. Classified advertisements
in Boston-area newspapers itemized tuition rates for Rowson’s school, by
then relocated to Medford: “Board per quarter, 30 dls—Tuition in Read-
ing, Arithmetic, English...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 June 2018
... by hyperbolizing the seemingly universally adorable qualities of girlhood to the point of absurdity, thereby making what is cute, adorable, sweet, or lovable about feminine heterosexuality seem hyperbolically ridiculous and consequently open to reinvention and play. Stark’s most ambitious intellectual move...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 433–454.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., Sophisticates, and the Transformation of American Girlhood, 1862–1940.” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 4 , no. 2 : 223 – 56 . de Man Paul . 1984 . The Rhetoric of Romanticism . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . Derrida Jacques . 2005 . Paper Machine . Translated...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 283–313.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... Here, the material conditions of abject girlhood experiences translate as a horrific yet somewhat humorous display of the physical materiality of the body. Recasting ideals associated with heteronormative femininity as dreadfully ugly moments of personal development, the album cover exploits typical...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 603–618.
Published: 01 September 2002
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battled existence, especially for an African American woman in the
late-nineteenth-century United States. If she covers Wells’s girlhood
rapidly, the public, activist life is richly rendered. Recognized today
for her outspoken resistance to violence against African Americans,
Wells’s public...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 89–110.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., ‘‘A Plea for
the Shiftless Reader Atlantic, January 1901, 131–36.
17 Rare exceptions in The Living include fleeting references to Sir Walter
Scott and The Virginian (L, 1, 93). Discussing her attempts to acquire
‘‘desirable traits’’ in her girlhood, Gilman refers to her project of imitat...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 859–885.
Published: 01 December 2002
... in red-white-and-blue script, certainly makes no effort to conceal
its national dedication). Sitting alone drinking beer and watching tele-
vision, Hal becomes emotionally transfixed by the triumphant final
scene of TheLittlePrincessin which Shirley Temple, that icon of white
American girlhood...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 761–785.
Published: 01 December 2005
... a cow. They’d milk the cow and they’d send
the neighbors milk and butter. It was like one big family When Davis
does recount an incident from her girlhood involving the exchange
of money—specifically, a woman acquiring money—her story shares
with ‘‘The Gilded Six-Bits’’ an emphasis on building...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 701–724.
Published: 01 December 2007
... a personal-
ized history of her family’s position in the social hierarchy in 1924; and
another of her friends, Consuelo Vanderbilt, wrote a witty and sharp-
eyed memoir in 1954, paying special attention to a girlhood passed in
lonely mansions in New York.4
Lehr’s memoir, like those before...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 315–345.
Published: 01 June 2018
... the epitome of girlhood never aging out of adorability and an intimate reflection of a multitude of creators, generations, and individual readers. Consider again Edelman’s attention to the photographed cartoon figure of the donkey and its interacting pencil. As Edelman notes, the figure of the ass dons...
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