商品簡介
Curling up with a good book in which the heroine saves the day has been a ritual of girlhood since the 1840s. Carpan (public services, Burke Library, Hamilton College) explains how this phenomenon came about, staring with the Cousin Lucy series published before the Civil war to Nancy Drew and the recently popular Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley High series. Along with examining the genres, subgenres, themes and characters of about 100 series, Carpan explains how these books represented the roles of women and girls in society and, to some extent, commented upon and subverted current standards. She also comments on how the books were written, published, distributed and reviewed, and includes appendices on the series and important books about girls' series fiction. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Carolyn Carpan is director of Public Services in the Burke Library at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She is the author of Rocked by Romance: A Guide to Teen Romance Fiction (2004) and Jane Yolen (2005).
