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This collection of essays focuses on the girl sleuth, made famous by Nancy Drew but also characterized by other famous detectives like Cherry Ames, Trixie Belden, Linda Carlton, and even in contemporary media by Veronica Mars and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.
Topics include the disputed origins of Nancy Drew and the Stratemeyer Syndicate; the intertwined relationships between the Syndicate and Nancy Drew's many ghostwriters; the distinct and evolving textual identities of the Cherry Ames series; the adaptation of the traditional archetype by contemporary girl detectives like Veronica Mars, Lulu Dark, and Ingrid Levin-Hill; and the ways in which Harry Potter's Hermione Granger, while a central character in the series, is often at odds with the male-centric, fantasy-genre world of Harry Potter himself.
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Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Mystery of the Moll Dick
MICHAEL G. CORNELIUS
The Nancy Drew Mythtery Stories
JAMES D. KEELINE
Originator, Writer, Editor, Hack: Carolyn Keene and Changing Definitions of Authorship
LINDA K. KARELL
Alice Roy, Détective: Nancy Drew in French Translation
MELANIE E. GREGG
Race and Xenophobia in the Nancy Drew Novels: "What kind of society...?"
LEONA W. FISHER
"They blinded her with science": Science Fiction and Technology in Nancy Drew
MICHAEL G. CORNELIUS
Linda Carlton: Flying Sleuth/Sleuthing Flier
FRED ERISMAN
The Girl Sleuths of Melody Lane
H. ALAN PICKRELL
Measuring Up to the Task: Cherry Ames as Nurse and Sleuth
ANITA G. GORMAN and LESLIE ROBERTSON MATEER
Puzzles, Paternity, and Privilege: The Mysterious Function(s) of the Family in Trixie Belden
STEVEN J. ZANI
Not Nancy Drew but Not Clueless: Embodying the Teen Girl Sleuth in the Twenty-first Century
MARLA HARRIS
Hermione Granger as Girl Sleuth
GLENNA ANDRADE
Teen Sleuth Manifesto
MELISSA FAVARA and ALLISON SCHUETTE-HOFFMAN
About the Contributors 199
Index203
