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"I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent": A History of Female Agency in American Young Adult Novels?
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Lemire, Elise
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Spring 2019
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2019
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This senior project explores the erasure of female voice and agency within young adult novels. It will focus on the novels The Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, and Looking for Alaska by John Green, with a final discussion of Green's two other novels An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns. I will discuss how each of these novels create minimal space for female characters, especially those who rebel against gender roles and expectations.
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