The awkward age in women's popular fiction, 1850-1900 :
[Book]
girls and the transition to womanhood /
Sarah Bilston.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
1 online resource (viii, 255 pages)
Oxford English monographs
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index.
Launched into the ocean of life: navigating the transition to womanhood in 1850s fiction -- The transitional stage theatrical girlhood in 1870s fiction -- Coming out: passages to womanhood in British and Anglo-Indian fiction, 1880-1894 -- On the threshold : female adolescent experience in the fiction of the fin de siècle -- A scant but quite ponderable germ: girls growth in Henry James' The awkward age.
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Bilston investigates how writers portrayed female adolescence and discusses why women authors so often centred on adolescent heroines. She considers how representations of the turbulent disaffected adolescent laid the foundation for the feminist New Woman heroine at the end of the 19th century.
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Awkward age in women's popular fiction, 1850-1900.
0199272611
English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
English fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Maturation (Psychology) in literature.
Popular literature-- Great Britain-- History and criticism.
Teenage girls in literature.
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.