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

by Sarah Bilston

This book demonstrates that 'the awkward age' formed a fault-line in Victorian female experience, an unusual phase in which restlessness, self-interest, and rebellion were possible. Tracing evolving treatments of female adolescence though a host of long-forgotten women's fictions, the bookreveals that representations of the girl in popular women's literature importantly anticipated depictions of the feminist in the fin de siecle New Woman writing;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199272611
• ISBN13: 9780199272617
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"