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Growing up female : adolescent girlhood in American fiction

Author: Barbara Anne White
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1985.
Series: Contributions in women's studies, no. 59.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara Anne White
ISBN: 0313248265 9780313248269 0313250650 9780313250651
OCLC Number: 11867245
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xiii, 260 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Introduction to the American novel of adolescence --
The girl protagonist before 1920 --
On the threshold : Edith Wharton's summer --
Nice girls and their folks : the adolescent and the family in Ruth Suckow's fiction --
Loss of self in Carson McCullers' The member of the wedding --
Initiation in Jean Stafford's the mountain lion --
The adolescent heroine and 'God's plan for girls' --
The new girls.
Series Title: Contributions in women's studies, no. 59.
Responsibility: Barbara A. White.

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