{"product_id":"the-girls-own-cultural-histories-of-the-anglo-american-girl-1830-1915-paperback","title":"The Girl's Own: Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClaudia Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLynne Vallone\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eClaudia Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eleven contributors to \u003ci\u003eThe Girl's Own\u003c\/i\u003e explore British and American Victorian representations of the adolescent girl by drawing on such contemporary sources as conduct books, housekeeping manuals, periodicals, biographies, photographs, paintings, and educational treatises. The institutions, practices, and literatures discussed reveal the ways in which the Girl expressed her independence, as well as the ways in which she was presented and controlled. As the contributors note, nineteenth-century visions of girlhood were extremely ambiguous. The adolescent girl was a fascinating and troubling figure to Victorian commentators, especially in debates surrounding female sexuality and behavior. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Girl's Own\u003c\/i\u003e combines literary and cultural history in its discussion of both British and American texts and practices. Among the topics addressed are the nineteenth-century attempt to link morality and diet; the making of heroines in biographies for girls; Lewis Carroll's and John Millais's iconographies of girlhood in, respectively, their photographs and paintings; genre fiction for and by girls; and the effort to reincorporate teenage unwed mothers into the domestic life of Victorian America.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaudia Nelson (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CLAUDIA NELSON is a professor of English at Texas A\u0026amp;M University. She is author or editor of numerous books including \u003ci\u003eFamily Ties in Victorian England, The Girl's Own: Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915 \u003c\/i\u003e(Georgia), and \u003ci\u003eLittle Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption in America, 1850-1929\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Children's Literature Association award for the best scholarly book of the year. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynne Vallone (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e LYNNE VALLONE is a professor of childhood studies and English at Rutgers University. She is the author or editor of numerous works including \u003ci\u003eDisciplines of Virtue: Girls' Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Norton Anthology of Children's Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130428854407,"sku":"9780820336954","price":59.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e9e6e28d4cf042e303eb8ec1a03ba6c2.webp?v=1732610731","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-girls-own-cultural-histories-of-the-anglo-american-girl-1830-1915-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}