Growing Up Female: Adolescent Girlhood in American Fiction, Vol. 59

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enlarge picture	*Growing Up Female: Adolescent Girlhood in American Fiction, Vol. 59*
	Author:	Barbara Anne White
	ISBN:	0313248265
	Format:	Handover
	Publish Date:	June, 2005




Book Review


*Review* In what the press release claims to be the `first book to be written on female adolescence in American literature.' Growing Up Female: Adolescent Girlhood in American Fiction, Barbara A. White shows that female adolescence played a major role in American fiction in much the same way it did with teenage boys. Part of the Contributions in Women's Studies series, this book is mostly about American fiction of the current century, with chapters on Edith Wharton, Ruth Suckow, Carson McCullers, and Jean Stafford. The scholarship is thorough, and the approach is a conventional thematic one. A first-rate bibliography will help anyone who wants to go on with the subject.American Literary Scholarship *Book Description* "Barbara White has written a thoroughly researched, detailed description of patterns of women's experience in fiction for adolescents. This well-written study should be required reading for graduate students and library school educators. It belongs in academic libraries, public libraries, and school libraries' professional collections and should be valuable reading for all adults who work with and/or live with adolescents." Choice Growing Up Female: Adolescent Girlhood in American Fiction, Vol. 59 FROM THE PUBLISHER In this first book to be written on female adolescence in American literature, 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. 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.