girls in literature

A collection of essays that examine the portrayal of girls in contemporary women's fiction and discuss how the issues girls in modern fiction face differ from those in Victorian fiction, how the fictional image of the girl reflects social change, and how popular authors portray girls in different ways.

A collection of twenty-four essays in which the authors reflect on their experiences reading Judy Blume novels; discussing topics such as divorce, peer pressure, menstruation, racism, and more.

A guide to studying Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "To Kill a Mockingbird, " featuring a biographical sketch of the author, a list of characters, a summary and analysis of the text, and a selection of critical views.

Presents ten essays on Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," covering such topics as the female voice in the novel, Lee's tragic vision, and the novel's historicity, Romantic regionalism, and destabilization of heterosexuality, and includes a chronology and a bibliography.

A collection of essays exploring various aspects of Sandra Cisneros' novel "The House on Mango Street.".