The awkward age in women's popular fiction, 1850-1900 :
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[Book]
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girls and the transition to womanhood /
First Statement of Responsibility
Sarah Bilston.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (viii, 255 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Oxford English monographs
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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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Title
Awkward age in women's popular fiction, 1850-1900.
International Standard Book Number
0199272611
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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.