The Girl: Constructions of the Girl in Contemporary Fiction by Women

by Ruth O. Saxton

Book Overview

No longer banished to the realms of the Victorian 'marriage or death' plots, girls in contemporary fiction embrace new freedoms while still struggling with plots centered on their bodies, societal limitations, and the price for freedom and escape. The Girl investigates the legacies of expectation, competing cultural ideologies, and multiplicities of growing up female at the end of the twentieth century as portrayed in contemporary fiction by women...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312173539
• ISBN13: 9780312173531
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating!

The collection of essays in this book is groundbreaking--in depth examinations of "the girl" in literature. A must for anyone interested in the subject!