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Girl Sleuth : On the Trail of Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton and Cherry Ames by Bobbie Ann Mason (1995, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN-10082031739X
ISBN-139780820317397
eBay Product ID (ePID)25038692660
Product Key Features
Book TitleGirl Sleuth : on the Trail of Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton and Cherry Ames
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1995
TopicChildren's & Young Adult Literature, Popular Culture, American / General
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Social Science
AuthorBobbie Ann Mason
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight8.3 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN94-047086
Dewey Edition20
Reviews"Indispensable to the history of women's reading in the U.S. Mason is observant, funny, and opinionated when it comes to her girlhood reading."--Janice Radway, author ofA Feeling for Books, "The well-known writer of adult fiction remembers the girl detective series books she read as a child and takes a critical look at the pleasures and effects of reading these mysteries."-- Portland Oregonian, Mason's engaging analysis . . . allows a new generation of adults to understand what made the series so irresistible., A lively, readable, rueful look back . . . It's a celebration of the tamed but still heartening message that Nancy Drew provided-the comforting assurance that the world was a mysterious place but that its secrets could be solved by any girl smart and brave enough to try., "Insightful, sometimes amusing, observations about the social implications of these series which offered girls the promise of adventure without straying too far from conventional expectations."-- Newsday, "Thoughtful and funny . . . [Mason] argues that the books are worthy of serious study because analyzing them helps us to discover who we really are, and who we want to become."-- Boston Globe, "Indispensable to the history of women's reading in the U.S. Mason is observant, funny, and opinionated when it comes to her girlhood reading."--Janice Radway, author of A Feeling for Books, "Thoughtful and funny . . . [Mason argues that the books are worthy of serious study because analyzing them helps us to discover who we really are, and who we want to become."-- Boston Globe, "Nostalgia with a mordant flourish . . . A delightful exposition of our flawed but nourishing earliest heroines."--Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, author of An Accidental Autobiography, Indispensable to the history of women's reading in the U.S. Mason is observant, funny, and opinionated when it comes to her girlhood reading., "Marvelous . . . Would make a wonderful present for any nostalgic veteran reader of Nancy, Cherry Ames, Judy Bolton and the Bobbseys."-- Washington Post, "A lively, readable, rueful look back . . . It's a celebration of the tamed but still heartening message that Nancy Drew provided-the comforting assurance that the world was a mysterious place but that its secrets could be solved by any girl smart and brave enough to try."-- San Jose Mercury News, "Mason's engaging analysis . . . allows a new generation of adults to understand what made the series so irresistible."-- Christian Science Monitor
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Dewey Decimal813/.08720992827
SynopsisIn this long-out-of-print work, which was first published in 1975, Bobbie Ann Mason examines the girl detective in her various guises through a combination of childhood reminiscences and insights as a fiction writer and observer of American popular culture., The Girl Sleuth is a book for anyone who fondly recalls her late-night adventures inside a bedspread cave with a flashlight, a handful of snitched cookies, and a savvy heroine who has just two chapters left in which to decode the message, find the jewels, unmask the impostor, and then catch the next express to the big city. In this long-out-of-print work, which was first published in 1975, Bobbie Ann Mason examines the girl detective in her various guises through a combination of childhood reminiscences and insights as a fiction writer and observer of American popular culture. Mason ranges in her coverage from the Bobbsey Twins to the glamorous career-girl detectives Vicki Barr, Cherry Ames, and Beverly Gray to her own adolescent favorites--Judy Bolton, Nancy Drew, and Trixie Belden, a farm girl like herself. Mason's personal recollections of a rural youth spent longing for mysteries to solve represent a quintessential American girlhood experience. Mason reveals Nancy Drew ("as cool as Mata Hari and as sweet as Betty Crocker") to be a paradoxical figure: on the one hand a model of independence and courage; on the other, a lady, eternally feminine and firmly devoted to the preservation of middle-class values. The girl sleuths "thrilled us and contented us at the same time," the author writes. Holding up Nancy Drew as a model of "the conventional and the revolutionary in one compact package," Mason shows how the series heroines encouraged young readers to "dream big" and stay open to life's possibilities, dished up antidotes to spoon-fed notions of traditional femininity, and amiably subverted the literary snobbery of child experts, librarians, and book reviewers. Everyone who grew up reading mystery books will enjoy Bobbie Ann Mason's witty, sometimes nostalgic, observations on popular culture, childhood, and the pleasures of reading and writing.
LC Classification NumberPS374.G55M37 1995
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