Seeking to understand how literary texts both shaped and reflected
the century's debates over adolescent female education, this book
examines fictional works and historical documents featuring
descriptions of girls' formal educational experiences between the
1810s and the 1890s. Alves argues that the emergence of schoolgirl
culture in nineteenth-century America presented significant
challenges to subsequent constructions of normative femininity. The
trope of the adolescent schoolgirl was a carrier of shifting
cultural anxieties about how formal education would disrupt the
customary maid-wife-mother cycle and turn young females off to
prevailing gender roles. By tracing the figure of the schoolgirl at
crossroads between educational and other institutions - in texts
written by and about girls from a variety of racial, ethnic, and
class backgrounds - this book transcends the limitations of
"separate spheres" inquiry and enriches our understanding of how
girls negotiated complex gender roles in the nineteenth century.
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