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Following seven centuries of tradition, Pope John Paul II has declared 2000 a Jubilee year. This remarkable book takes us back to the first Holy year, 1300, when Pope Boniface VIII promised eternal peace for the souls of all Christians who trekked to the Eternal City. Two hundred thousand pilgrims flocked to Rome in that year, viewing the sacred Christian sites that figured so prominently in their religious lives. This book takes us on the route of an imagined pilgrim of the first Jubilee, guiding us through the medieval city as she saw it and allowing us to experience its treasures and rituals. Herbert L. Kessler and Johanna Zacharias discuss the transformation of pagan Rome into the Holy City of Christianity. They explain how the major churches and the sacred relics, frescoes, icons, and mosaics within them served in the Middle Ages to attract the faithful and to confirm and teach belief. And they tell us what the churches and their contents looked like then, showing us how they have, and have not, changed. Illustrated with works of art and architecture that survive today in surprising numbers, as well as with lost works reconstructed and revitalised through scholarship, the book looks at what pilgrims ventured to see in 1300 in Rome and what they will see today.

Pfeiffer, Julie

Teen & Young Adult

Yale University Press

Children's Literature, which appears annually, publishes the best writing on children's literature of all periods and genres. This latest volume is dedicated to the founding editor, Francelia Butler, and contains a poem and two essays about her. Peace, pleasure, and plain-speaking are among the themes of the volume.

The 30th volume in the Children's Literature series of annual publications. It features reviews such as: Alcott Reading; Little House on a Big Quilt; and Identity Crises. It also contains essays on topics such as: Power, Fear, and Children's Picture Books; and Affirmative Acts.

Children's Literature: Volume 30

Literature & Fiction

Keyser, Elizabeth Lennox

History & Criticism

Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence (Children's Literature Association Series)

Review Pfeiffer’s book is a dense, discursive and thoroughly researched argument for a better way of approaching adolescence. . .it is also a persuasive thesis on the work of rearing girls that, ideally, could change attitudes not only to adolescence but to the adolescent we all carry within us. -- Katharine England ― MagpiesTransforming Girls has the potential to shift the way we think about girlhood reading and adolescence while carving out a different kind of conceptual space for adolescent girls―one that fosters growth while embracing the ‘messiness’ of the transition to adulthood. -- Sarah Wadsworth, author of In the Company of Books: Literature and Its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century AmericaBy situating the backfisch into a backdrop of well-established texts and critical lenses, Pfeiffer gently but insistently asks scholars to reconsider many of the critical assumptions our understandings of adolescent and nineteenth-century literature have been built upon. -- Ivy Stabell, associate professor of English at Iona College Product Description Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence explores the paradox of the nineteenth-century girls’ book. On the one hand, early novels for adolescent girls rely on gender binaries and suggest that girls must accommodate and support a patriarchal framework to be happy. On the other, they provide access to imagined worlds in which teens are at the center. The early girls’ book frames female adolescence as an opportunity for productive investment in the self. This is a space where mentors who trust themselves, the education they provide, and the girl’s essentially good nature neutralize the girl’s own anxieties about maturity. These mid-nineteenth-century novels focus on female adolescence as a social category in unexpected ways. They draw not on a twentieth-century model of the alienated adolescent, but on a model of collaborative growth. The purpose of these novels is to approach adolescence―a category that continues to engage and perplex us―from another perspective, one in which fluid identity and the deliberate construction of a self are celebrated. They provide alternatives to cultural beliefs about what it was like to be a white, middle-class girl in the nineteenth century and challenge the assumption that the evolution of the girls’ book is always a movement towards less sexist, less restrictive images of girls. Drawing on forgotten bestsellers in the United States and Germany (where this genre is referred to as Backfischliteratur), Transforming Girls offers insightful readings that call scholars to reexamine the history of the girls’ book. It also outlines an alternate model for imagining adolescence and supporting adolescent girls. The awkward adolescent girl―so popular in mid-nineteenth-century fiction for girls―remains a valuable resource for understanding contemporary girls and stories about them. About the Author Julie Pfeiffer is professor of English at Hollins University. She is editor of Children’s Literature, the annual of the Children’s Literature Association.

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence explores the paradox of the nineteenth-century girls' book. On the one hand, early novels for adolescent girls rely on gender binaries and suggest that girls must accommodate and support a patriarchal framework to be happy. On the other, they provide access to imagined worlds in which teens are at the center. The early girls' book frames female adolescence as an opportunity for productive investment in the self. This is a space where mentors who trust themselves, the education they provide, and the girl's essentially good nature neutralize the girl's own anxieties about maturity. These mid-nineteenth-century novels focus on female adolescence as a social category in unexpected ways. They draw not on a twentieth-century model of the alienated adolescent, but on a model of collaborative growth. The purpose of these novels is to approach adolescence--a category that continues to engage and perplex us--from another perspective, one in which fluid identity and the deliberate construction of a self are celebrated. They provide alternatives to cultural beliefs about what it was like to be a white, middle-class girl in the nineteenth century and challenge the assumption that the evolution of the girls' book is always a movement towards less sexist, less restrictive images of girls. Drawing on best-selling novels in the United States and Germany (where this genre is referred to as Backfischliteratur), Transforming Girls reframes our understanding of the history of the girls' book and provides insightful readings of forgotten bestsellers. It also outlines an alternate model for imagining adolescence and supporting adolescent girls. The awkward adolescent girl--so popular in mid-nineteenth-century fiction for girls--remains a valuable resource for understanding contemporary girls and stories about them.

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Children's Literature, 28

Children's Literature, 28

Children's Literature: Volume 30

Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence (Children's Literature Association Series)

Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence (Children's Literature Association Series)