Bronwyn Lowe

'The Right Thing to Read'

A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960

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Produktbeschreibung

'The Right Thing to Read': A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 explores the reading habits, identity, and construction of femininity of Australian girls aged between ten and fourteen from 1910 to 1960. It investigates changing notions of Australian girlhood across the period, and explores the ways that parents, teachers, educators, journalists and politicians attempted to mitigate concerns about girls' development through the promotion of 'healthy' literature. The book also addresses the influence of British publishers to Australian girl-readers and the growing importance of Australian publishers throughout the period. It considers the rise of Australian literary nationalism in the global context, and the increasing prominence of Australian literature in the period after the Second World War. It also shows how access to reading material improved for girls over the first half of the last century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780367592141
• ISBN-10: 0367592142
• Artikelnr.: 66597087

Autorenporträt

Bronwyn Lowe is a historian of Australian book history and girlhood, who examines attitudes towards girls' reading habits in the past. Her most recent journal articles have appeared in History Compass and Book History. She currently works as a sessional lecturer of Australian Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Girlhood reading in the First World War
2 Magazine reading and access in the 1920s
3 Libraries, education and reading in the Great Depression
4 Girl-readers in the Second World War
5 1950s Australia and a new Australian children's literature
Conclusion
Index