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Nix, Elizabeth Morrow. "An Exuberant Flow of Spirits: Antebellum Adolescent Girls in the Writing of Southern Women," American Studies Program, Boston University, April 1996.
This dissertation examines fictional and non-fictional representations of adolescent girlhood in the antebellum South. It extends and questions earlier studies of the belle by focusing on the processes by which girls were socialized into ladies and by highlighting the variety of responses young girls had to their changing role in society. The novels (The Hidden Hand, Alone, Beulah, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Iola Leroy, Battle Ground, and Old Mortality), diaries (Sarah Morgan’s), and periodicals (The Rose-Bud) under study depict a resistance to conformity among adolescent girls and their culture’s simultaneous tolerance of that resistance.
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