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Women's university fiction, 1880-1945
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ISBN: 9781848934085 1848934084 9781781440391 1781440395 9781315654607 9781317319559 9781317319566 9781138664777 1306094054 1317319575 1315654601 1317319567 1781443890 Year: 2014 Publisher: London Pickering & Chatto


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College girls
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ISBN: 0813585589 058502314X 9780585023144 9780813521756 0813521750 9780813521763 0813521769 0813521750 0813521769 9780813585581 Year: 1995 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press

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Since the opening of Vassar College in 1865, objections to higher education for women have ranged from charges that females were mentally and physically incapable of learning to the belief that educating women would destroy society. Underlying all arguments was the folk wisdom which declared that women could not live and work together. To counteract such beliefs, women's colleges tried to create a special kind of space and new role models that would allow women to exist for a short time in idyllic (or, at least, idealized) conditions. The debate over women's education, for the good or ill of society, generated a great deal of "print," including short stories and novels. Shirley Marchalonis guides us through the history of this fiction, its depiction of the complexities of the college experience, and the conflicting attitudes that teetered between fascination and fear, celebration and regret. Using novels, short stories, and some juvenile fiction from 1865 to 1940 - all of it specifically about college "girls"--She examines these ideas, the way they developed over time, and their significance in understanding women's education and women's history. The debate over separate colleges for women continues to this day and can be better understood in the context of this informative and entertaining look at the past.


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Der englische Universitätsroman der Nachkriegszeit : ein Beitrag zur Gattungsbestimmung
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ISBN: 3884795872 Year: 1991 Publisher: Würzburg Königshausen und Neumann


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Der anglo-amerikanische Universitätsroman : eine historische Skizze.
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ISBN: 3534014545 Year: 1988 Publisher: Darmstadt Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft

Faculty towers : the academic novel and its discontents.
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ISBN: 0812238508 Year: 2005 Publisher: Philadelphia (Pa.) University of Pennsylvania press

Ancient cultures of conceit: British university fiction in the post-war years
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ISBN: 0415031540 0415048427 Year: 1990 Publisher: London Routledge


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Faculty towers : the academic novel and its discontents
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ISBN: 019928332X 9780199283323 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press,

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