The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900: Girls and the Transition to Womanhood

by Sarah Bilston

Tracing evolving treatments of female adolescence through a host of long-forgotten women's fictions, the book reveals that representations of the girl in popular women's literature importantly anticipated depictions of the feminist in the fin de si cle New Woman writing; conservative portrayals of girls' hopes, dreams, and subsequent frustrations helped clear a literary and cultural space for the New Woman's "awakening" to disaffected consciousness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199272611
• ISBN13: 9780199272617
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"