What Katy Read
Author: Shirley Foster
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780877454939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough close readings of these eight North American and British novels, which have had a powerful impact on the development of literature for girls, Foster and Simons consider genres from the domestic myth to the school story, analyze the transgressive figure of the tomboy, and discuss ways in which superficially conventional texts implicitly undermine patterns of patriarchy.