Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Introduction Allison Giffen and Robin L. Cadwallader

Part I. Fictional Representations of Girls I: Coming of Age and Conversion

1. "Never was born" Again: Grace, Legibility, and the Rhetoric of Topsyâs Conversion in Uncle Tomâs Cabin (1852) Allison Curseen

2. Opaque Bodies and Perpetual Girlhood in Harriet Wilsonâs Our Nig (1859) Laura J. Schrock

3. "You have failed in everything": The Intersection of Spiritual and Academic Education in Martha Finleyâs Elsie Dinsmore (1867) LuElla DâAmico

4. Queer Friendship in The Wide Wide World (1850) and Pollyanna (1913) Kristen Proehl

Pat II. Fictional Representations of Girls II: Reform and the Evangelical

5. "The things she had to say!": Listening to Deaf-Mute Catty in Elizabeth Stuart Phelpsâs The Silent Partner (1871) Jaime Alves

6. Costly Sympathy: Evangelicalism and the Economics of Suffering in The Lamplighter (1854) Alison Tracy Hale

7. Dwarfism and the Evangelical: Little Mabelâs Call for Reform Rachel Cope

Part III. Girls in the Archive: Excavating Representations of Girls

8. Daughters of a Reading People: Representations of African American Girlhood and Female Literacy in the Christian Recorder Vanessa Steinroetter

9. Lessons for Girls in Sunday School Stories: Representations of the Missionary Woman in Nineteenth-Century Religious Periodicals for Children in Protestant Canada Patricia Kmiec

10. "A Peep at the Heart": The Spiritual Life of Girls in Nineteenth-Century Methodist Fictions James M. Van Wyck and Christopher Anderson

Part IV. In Her Own Words: The Voices of Girls

11. "Heart Talk": Chinese School Girlsâ Letters to American Girls Karen Li Miller

12. Black Girls and Their Nineteenth-Century Autograph Albums Nazera Wright