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Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century American Tomboys, 1850–1915

Allison S. Curseen
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 883–885.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917392
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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Louisa May Alcott's Age

Sari Edelstein
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 517–545.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149357
Published: 01 September 2015
... by Duke University Press 2015 maturity development gender adulthood youth References Abate Michelle . 2008 . Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History . Philadelphia : Temple Univ. Press . Achenbaum W. Andrew . 1995 . Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges...
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The Sentimentalist Terrain of Ora V. Eddleman Reed’s Twin Territories Fiction

Kathryn Walkiewicz
American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 547–577.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11557513
Published: 01 December 2024
... to the Indian Territory, ‘which,’ Lizonka declared to her husband as they stood together in their old trysting places, ‘is, after all, the only place that’s really home.’” (Schreiber 1899: October, 228). Their relationship as Native tomboy and Texas tenderfoot complicates the foreign-domestic dichotomy...
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Racial Abstraction and Species Difference: Anthropomorphic Animals in “Multicultural” Children’s Literature

Leslie Bow
American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 323–356.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7529167
Published: 01 June 2019
... ), a hermeneutic practice uncovering evidence of same-sex desire and its repression. In the case of children’s literature, what is at stake in the practice is not establishing intent but possibility. When asked whether his tomboy aardvark character, D.W., was gay, for example, author Marc Brown merely replied...
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“I’m Very Happy to Be in the Reality-Based Community”: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home , Digital Photography, and George W. Bush

Robin Bernstein
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 121–154.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3788741
Published: 01 March 2017
... references beyond the 1980s. 4 The structure of Fun Home is recursive and labyrinthine, but the story it recounts is simple: Alison grows up as a tomboy in rural Pennsylvania, where her family owns a funeral parlor that she and her brothers call the “fun home.” In college, Alison comes out...
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“My Childhood Is Ruined!”: Harper Lee and Racial Innocence

Katherine Henninger
American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 597–626.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3650259
Published: 01 September 2016
... race and class. None of the five major flashbacks to Jean Louise’s childhood is about racial interaction in itself, although all either feature or are bookended by such interactions. Appearing in roughly chronological order, the first two episodes feature Scout in full tomboy mode, a young...
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Drowning (in) Kittens: The Reproduction of Girlhood in Victorian America

Elizabeth Barnes
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 305–331.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2647009
Published: 01 June 2014
... of feeling. To illustrate my point, let me turn to a post–Civil War female bildung- sroman whose dying protagonist exemplifies the sentimental work of the killable object. Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women ([1868–69] 2004) has long been lauded for its strong-willed, independent tomboy, Jo March...
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That Damned Mob of Scribbling Siblings: The American Romance as Anti-novel in The Power of Sympathy and Pierre

Elizabeth Dill
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 707–738.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-036
Published: 01 December 2008
... their parents were out of the room. But in the explosively popular novels published half a century later, stories of family are no longer gripped by overt sensuality and vice. The impoverished urchin Gerty in The Lamplighter (1854), the forsaken tomboy Capitola in The Hidden Hand (1859...
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