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Title:

Nancy Drew and her sister sleuths : essays on the fiction of girl detectives / edited by Michael G. Cornelius and Melanie E. Gregg.

Publisher:

McFarland & Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

viii, 208 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.
Drew, Nancy (Fictitious character)
Women detectives in literature.
Teenage girls in literature.

Other Authors:

Cornelius, Michael G.
Gregg, Melanie E.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The Nancy Drew mythhtery stories / James D. Keeline -- Originator, writer, editor, hack : Carolyn Keene and changing definitions of authorship / Linda K. Karell -- Alice Roy, détective : Nancy Drew in French translation / Melanie E. Gregg -- Race and Xenophobia in the Nancy Drew novels : "What king of society...?" / Leona W. Fisher -- "They blinded her with science" : science fiction and technology in Nancy Drew / Michael G. Cornelius -- Linda Carlton : flying sleuth/sleuthing flier / Fred Erisman -- The girl sleuths of melody Lane / H. Alan Pickrell -- Measuring up to the task : Cherry Ames as nurse and sleuth / Anita G. Gorman and Leslie Robertson Mateer -- Puzzles, paternity, and privilege : the mysterious function (s) of family in Trixie Belden / Steven J. Zane -- Not Nancy Drew but not clueless : embodying the teen girl sleuth in the twenty-first century / Marla Harris -- Hermiome Granger as girl sleuth / GLenna Andlade -- Teen sleuth manifesto / Melissa Favara and Allison Schuette-Hoffman.

ISBN:

0786439955 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780786439959 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)234257155

LCCN:

2008030002

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

VJPB334 -- Maynard Community Library (Maynard)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)