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Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls' Serial Literature
Author
Kate Harper
Contributor
Foreword by Georganne Scheiner Gillis
Content
xi + 144 pp., bibl., index
Publication date
2020
Publisher
New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis
Publication notes
Revised dissertation, Arizona State University
Description
Covers 20th-century series featuring Cherry Ames, Vicki Barr, Dorothy Dale, Nancy Drew, the Baby-Sitters Club, and Sweet Valley High.
Main subject
Literature and Literary Criticism
ISBN
9780367330811 (cloth); 9781032086347 (pap.); 9780429317897 (ebook)
Citation
Harper, Kate.
Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls' Serial Literature.
New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2020. Sylvia. Accessed June 19, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL3228.
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04-24-2024
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