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Author:   Allison Giffen (Western Washington University, US) ,  Robin Cadwallader (Saint Francis University, US)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138678743

ISBN 10:   1138678740
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   25 August 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction Allison Giffen and Robin L. Cadwallader Part I. Fictional Representations of Girls I: Coming of Age and Conversion 1. ""Never was born"" Again: Grace, Legibility, and the Rhetoric of Topsy’s Conversion in Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Allison Curseen 2. Opaque Bodies and Perpetual Girlhood in Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig (1859) Laura J. Schrock 3. ""You have failed in everything"": The Intersection of Spiritual and Academic Education in Martha Finley’s Elsie Dinsmore (1867) LuElla D’Amico 4. Queer Friendship in The Wide Wide World (1850) and Pollyanna (1913) Kristen Proehl Pat II. Fictional Representations of Girls II: Reform and the Evangelical 5. ""The things she had to say!"": Listening to Deaf-Mute Catty in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Silent Partner (1871) Jaime Alves 6. Costly Sympathy: Evangelicalism and the Economics of Suffering in The Lamplighter (1854) Alison Tracy Hale 7. Dwarfism and the Evangelical: Little Mabel’s Call for Reform Rachel Cope Part III. Girls in the Archive: Excavating Representations of Girls 8. Daughters of a Reading People: Representations of African American Girlhood and Female Literacy in the Christian Recorder Vanessa Steinroetter 9. Lessons for Girls in Sunday School Stories: Representations of the Missionary Woman in Nineteenth-Century Religious Periodicals for Children in Protestant Canada Patricia Kmiec 10. ""A Peep at the Heart"": The Spiritual Life of Girls in Nineteenth-Century Methodist Fictions James M. Van Wyck and Christopher Anderson Part IV. In Her Own Words: The Voices of Girls 11. ""Heart Talk"": Chinese School Girls’ Letters to American Girls Karen Li Miller 12. Black Girls and Their Nineteenth-Century Autograph Albums Nazera Wright"

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Allison Giffen is Professor of English at Western Washington University, US. Robin L. Cadwallader is Professor of English/Communications and Director of the Women's Studies Program at Saint Francis University of Pennsylvania, US.

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