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Written by women for children, girls' fiction has been doubly marginalized by the critical establishment, yet it remains a crucial element in most girls' formative literary experience.
In their original and provocative analysis of texts written between 1850 and 1920 - including Little Women, What Katy Did, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, The Daisy Chain, The Railway Children, The Madcap of the School, and The Wide, Wide World - Foster and Simons examine what makes a classic and how such texts construct role models which both reflect and subvert contemporary ideologies of childhood.
By applying twentieth-century feminist theory to this body of literature, What Katy Read uncovers a challenging and exciting new dimension to a previously ignored area.
Through close readings of these eight North American and British novels, which have had a powerful impact on the development of literature for girls, Foster and Simons consider genres from the domestic myth to the school story, analyze the transgressive figure of the tomboy, and discuss ways in which superficially conventional texts implicitly undermine patterns of patriarchy.
Their stimulating and innovative study will be essential reading for students of women's writing and children's literature alike.
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Feminism and literature, Children's stories, English, Children's stories, American, Books and reading, History and criticism, Girls, Girls in literature, Feminism, Children's literature, history and criticism, Children's stories, english--history and criticism, Children's stories, american--history and criticism, English fictionchildren's stories, Pr830.g57 f68 1995, 823.008092827, Literary criticism, Children's literaturePlaces
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What Katy read: feminist re-readings of classic stories for girls
1995, Macmillan
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What Katy read: feminist re-readings of "classic" stories for girls
1995, University of Iowa Press
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What Katy Read: Feminist Re-readings of Classic Stories for Girls, 1850-1920
Apr 01, 1995, Palgrave Macmillan
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What Katy Read: Feminist Re-Readings of 'Classic' Stories for Girls
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