Download e-book for kindle: Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: Girls' Series Books in by Carolyn Carpan

By Carolyn Carpan

ISBN-10: 0810857561

ISBN-13: 9780810857568

ladies sequence books were renowned because the early 1840s, while books approximately Cousin Lucy, a tender lady who learns concerning the international round her, first seemed. when you consider that then, ratings of sequence books have undefined, a number of of them hugely profitable, and that includes probably the most enduring characters in fiction, reminiscent of Nancy Drew. In fresh many years, sequence books like The Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley High became staples for younger readers all over the place.

In Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: women' sequence Books in America, Carolyn Carpan offers a social historical past of women' sequence fiction released in the US from the mid-19th century throughout the early twenty first century. Carpan examines well known sequence, subgenres, topics, and characters present in nearly a hundred sequence, noting how teenage women are portrayed in ladies' sequence fiction and the way ladies' sequence mirror or subvert the tradition of the period during which they're produced. Her learn additionally makes a speciality of the construction, writing, and construction of such books.

This is the 1st research of yankee ladies' sequence books to check the full style from its beginnings within the 1840s to the current day, revealing proof a few sub-genre of kid's and younger grownup literature that has hardly been studied. Appendixes during this quantity comprise an inventory of the women' sequence coated within the ebook in addition to vital books approximately women' sequence fiction.

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