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245 04 $aThe Girl's own :$bcultural histories of the Anglo-American girl, 1830-1915 /$cedited by Claudia Nelson and Lynne Vallone.
260 $aAthens :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $a296 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Lynne Vallone and Claudia Nelson -- Care in Feeding: Vegetarianism and Social Reform in Alcott's America / Claudia Nelson -- Tales for Young Housekeepers: T. S. Arthur and the American Girl / Judith Pascoe -- Models for Public Life: Biographies of "Noble Women" for Girls / Martha Vicinus -- The Barnacle: A Manuscript Magazine of the 1860s / Julia Courtney -- "Of Home Birth and Breeding": Eliza Lynn Linton and the Girl of the Period / Christina Boufis -- The Look of Little Girls: John Everett Millais and the Victorian Art Market / Leslie Williams -- Dream-Rushes: Lewis Carroll's Photographs of the Little Girl / Carol Mavor -- Life's Lessons: Liberal Feminist Ideals of Family, School, and Community in Victorian England / Joyce Senders Pedersen -- "It Is Pluck, But - Is It Sense?": Athletic Student Culture in Progressive-era Girls' College Fiction / Sherrie A. Inness -- Girls' Culture: At Work / Sally Mitchell.
505 0 $a"The True Meaning of Dirt": Putting Good and Bad Girls in Their Place(s) / Lynne Vallone.
520 $aIn The Girl's Own Claudia Nelson and Lynne Vallone bring together eleven essays that explore British and American Victorian representations of the adolescent girl. The variety of contemporary sources on which the essays draw includes conduct books, housekeeping manuals, periodicals, biographies, photographs, paintings, and educational treatises.
520 8 $aThe institutions, practices, and literatures discussed in this volume reveal the ways in which the Girl expressed her independence, as well as the ways in which she was presented and controlled.
520 8 $aAs many of the contributors note, nineteenth-century visions of girlhood in both Britain and the United States were extremely ambiguous. The adolescent girl was a figure both fascinating and troubling to Victorian commentators, who often debated her place in society.
520 8 $aIn the controversy over female sexuality and behavior she played an especially significant role, because she embodied the potential for either virtuous attention to duty - as wife/mother or spinster/sister - or depraved independence and sexual freedom.
520 8 $aUnlike other examinations of Victorian girlhood, this collection is particularly distinguished by its combination of literary and cultural history in its discussion of both British and American texts and practices.
520 8 $aAmong the topics addressed are the nineteenth-century attempt to link morality and diet; the making of heroines in biographies for girls; Lewis Carroll's and John Millais's iconographies of girlhood in, respectively, their photographs and paintings; genre fiction for and by girls; and the effort to reincorporate teenage unwed mothers into the domestic life of Victorian America.
520 8 $aTogether these essays follow the adolescent girl from her domestic life as housekeeper and as consumer of didactic literature, through her canonization or condemnation by nineteenth-century society, to her forays into the public sphere of school or employment, and finally back "home" again, as turn-of-the-century social activists tried to come to terms with girls who refused to act according to Victorian values.
520 8 $aUltimately, neither actual nor fictional girls appear content to be categorized as the reassuringly meek and ornamental beings their society desired.
650 0 $aTeenage girls in popular culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aTeenage girls in popular culture$zEngland$xHistory$y19th century.
700 1 $aNelson, Claudia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90704298
700 1 $aVallone, Lynne.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93071227
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