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Saving the World - Girlhood and Evangelicalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Paperback)
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Saving the World - Girlhood and Evangelicalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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This book makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning field
of childhood studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
by drawing on the intersecting fields of girlhood, evangelicalism,
and reform to investigate texts written in North America about
girls, for girls, and by girls. Responding both to the intellectual
excitement generated by the rise of girlhood studies, as well as to
the call by recent scholars to recognize the significance of
religion as a meaningful category in the study of
nineteenth-century literature and culture, this collection locates
evangelicalism at the center of its inquiry into girlhood.
Contributors draw on a wide range of texts, including canonical
literature by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan Warner, and Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps, and overlooked archives such as US Methodist Sunday
School fiction, children's missionary periodicals, and the
Christian Recorder, the flagship newspaper of the African Methodist
Episcopal (AME) Church. These essays investigate representations of
girlhood that engage, codify, and critique normative Protestant
constructions of girlhood. Contributors examine girlhood in the
context of reform, revealing the ways in which Protestantism at
once constrained and enabled female agency. Drawing on a range of
critical perspectives, including African American Studies,
Disability Studies, Gender Studies, and Material Culture Studies,
this volume enriches our understanding of nineteenth-century
childhood by focusing on the particularities of girlhood, expanding
it beyond that of the white able-bodied middle-class girl and
attending to the intersectionality of identity and religion.
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