"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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Author
Esposito, Brittany
Keyword
First Reader Elise V. Lemire
Senior Project
Semester Spring 2019
Readers/Advisors
Lemire, Elise
Term and Year
Spring 2019
Date Published
2019

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/14197
Abstract
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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