Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature
- Author
- Kristen B. Proehl
- Content
- x + 163 pp.
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis
- Publication notes
- Revised dissertation, College of William and Mary
- Description
- Covers the tomboy figure from the 19th through the 21st centuries and focuses on The Hidden Hand by E.D.E.N. Southward, the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, The Member of the Wedding by Carsons McCullers, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild.
- Main subject
- Literature and Literary Criticism
- ISBN
- 9780815368687 (cloth); 9780429842023 (ebook); 9780429453212 (ebook)
- Citation
- Proehl, Kristen B. Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature. New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2018. Sylvia. Accessed June 4, 2023. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1513.
- Updated
- 12-02-2020