31 Mid-Century Models: Postwar Girls’ Comics, Fashion, and Self-Fashioning

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. General Introduction: Reading, Writing, and Creating Communities in Children’s Periodicals 1
6. Part I Telling Tales
7. Introduction 25
8. 1 The Lilliputian Magazine: Entertaining Education in the Service of Profit and Reform 29
9. 2 For the Youth, By the Youth: Child-Centrism and the Rise of the Fantastic in Juvenile Print Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Ireland 45
10. 3 Old and New World Fairy Tales in St Nicholas Magazine 64
11. 4 Enid Blyton’s Wartime Sunny Stories: Facilitating Fantasies of Child Heroism 79
12. 5 Girls Growing Up: Reading ‘Erotic Bloods’ in Interwar Britain 93
13. 6 ‘There’s no room for demons when you’re self-possessed’: Supernatural Possession in British Girls’ Comics 112
14. Part II Making Readers and Writers
15. Introduction 133
16. 7 The Literary Olympic and Riddle Tournament: Competition and Community in Young Folks Paper (1871–1897) 137
17. 8 Children’s Columns in British Regional Newspapers 153
18. 9 School Magazines, Collective Cultures, and the Making of Late Victorian Periodical Culture 172
19. 10 Charity, Cultural Exchange, and Generational Difference in Scottish Children’s Writings about the First World War 194
20. 11 ‘My great ambition is to be an authoress’: Constructing Space for Literary Girlhoods in Australasian Children’s Correspondence Pages, 1900–1930 212
21. 12 The Indian English Periodical Target: Popularity and Nostalgia 231
22. 13 Classic Adventures and the Construction of the ‘Classic’ Reader in the 1990s 244
23. Part III Place and Self
24. Introduction 265
25. 14 The Brownies’ Book and the American Children’s Publishing Industry 270
26. 15 Who Speaks for Welsh Children? Early Welsh Children’s Periodicals 291
27. 16 Colonial Modernity in Print Culture: Revisiting Juvenile Periodicals in Nineteenth- Century Bengal 310
28. 17 Imagined Communities: Digital Tools for the Study of St Nicholas’s Global and National Readership 331
29. 18 Teaching Humanitarianism to British Children through the Junior Red Cross Journal in the 1920s 349
30. 19 The Portrayal of Japanese Girls in British Girls’ Magazines between the 1880s and 1910s 366
31. 20 Scottish Stereotyping, Highlandism, and Stevenson in Young Folks Paper 382
32. Part IV Politics and Activism
33. Introduction 403
34. 21 ‘I address you as owners’: The Victorian Child, the Missionary Ship, and the Juvenile Missionary Magazine 406
35. 22 Conservationists or Conquerors? Children, Nature, and the Environment in the Juvenile Companion and Sunday School Hive (1845–1888) 421
36. 23 ‘Everyone is requested to do all they can to get this paper taken in’: The Pleasures and Duties of Children’s Charity in the Waifs and Strays Society 438
37. 24 ‘The whole world is unquiet’: Imperial Rivalry and Global Politics in the London Pupil Teachers’ Association Record 452
38. 25 ‘Sober Soldiers’: How Children’s Temperance Magazines Won the First World War 469
39. 26 ‘Inspire the Communist rebel spirit in the young people of our class’: An Overview of Communist Children’s Periodicals in Britain, 1917–1929 488
40. 27 Wild Nature, Ecoliteracy, and Activism in Children’s Environmental Periodicals 506
41. Part V Girlhoods and Boyhoods
42. Introduction 525
43. 28 Gendering Physical Activity and Sport in the Girl’s Own Paper and Boy’s Own Paper 529
44. 29 ‘Young film friends’: Gendering Children’s Film Culture in Interwar Film Periodicals 550
45. 30 ‘What becomes of the colored girl?’: Shifts in the Culture of Black Girlhood within the Brownies’ Book 570
46. 31 Mid-Century Models: Postwar Girls’ Comics, Fashion, and Self-Fashioning 591
47. 32 ‘A power in the home’: The Rise of the Teenage Girl Magazine and the Teen Girl Reader in Australia and the USA 609
48. 33 ‘My friend really loves history . . . can she look at that really old Jackie?’ Contemporary Girls Encountering Historical Periodicals for Girls 625
49. Notes on Contributors 642
50. Index 648
51. Plate 667