Disciplines of virtue : girls' culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries /

In British and American representations of girlhood during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, adolescent girls were viewed both as figures of adornment and as creatures in need of refuge, rescue, and reform. This engrossing book investigates such portrayals of girlhood by analyzing children�...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vallone, Lynne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1995.
Temas:
1700-1899
Teenage girls in popular culture > United States > History.
Teenage girls in popular culture > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Teenage girls in popular culture > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Adolescentes dans la culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
Adolescentes dans la culture populaire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Adolescentes dans la culture populaire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > General.
Teenage girls in popular culture
Volkskultur
Weibliche Jugend
Meisjes.
Cultuur.
Great Britain
United States
Großbritannien
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The Pleasure of the Act: Charity, Penitence, and Narrative
  • 2. "The Matter of Letters": Conduct, Anatomy and Pamela
  • 3. The Value of Virtue: Dowry, Marriage Settlements, and the Conduct Novel
  • 4. The Happiness of Virtue: Evangelicalism, Class, and Gender
  • 5. The Daughters of the Republic: Girls' Play in Nineteenth-Century American Juvenile Fiction
  • 6. "The True Meaning of Dirt": Putting Good and Bad Girls in Their Place(s)
  • Afterword: "Still Harping on My Daughter": Pamela's Sisters.

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