Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls'' Series
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5 Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, and Woodcraft Girls: The Ideology of Girls'' Scouting Novels, 1910-1935 Sherrie A. Inness In his article "The Boy Scout Handbook," Paul Fussell argues that scholars are not paying adequate attention to many literary works that do not qualify as masterpieces. "It''s amazing how many interesting books humanistic criticism manages not to notice," he comments. "Staring fixedly at its handful of teachable masterpieces, it seems content not to recognize that a ...