Growing Up Female: Adolescent Girlhood in American Fiction - Barbara Anne White - Paperback

In this first book to be written on female adolescence in American literature, Barbara A. White offers a necessary corrective both to the bias of current criticism, which emphasizes boys' growth to manhood, and to the neglect and misunderstanding of important works of fiction by women. In the process, she provides new literary and social perspectives on two significant developments of modern times: the emergence of adolescence, in the late nineteenth century, as a recognized stage of life and the role and identity changes experienced by women since 1900. Her balanced treatment includes both a general survey of the fiction of female adolescence and in-depth investigation of works of four representative writers--Edith Wharton, Ruth Suckow, Carson McCullers, and Jean Stafford. An extensive bibliography lists over 275 novels by women about female adolescence.White, Barbara A. is the author of 'Growing Up Female: Adolescent Girlhood in American Fiction - Barbara Anne White - Paperback' with ISBN 9780313250651 and ISBN 0313250650.