What Katy Read: Feminist Re-Readings of 'Classic' Stories for Girls

by Shirley Foster and Judy Simons

Book Overview

What Katy Read focuses on a much neglected area of literary criticism: literature for girls. Written by women for children, such texts have been doubly marginalized by the critical establishment. Shirley Foster and Judy Simons use twentieth-century feminist critical practice to open up fresh perspectives on popular fiction for girls written between 1850 and 1920. The study analyses both American and British novels for girls which have acquired 'classic'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333626737
• ISBN13: 9780333626733
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: MacMillan
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"