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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Nancy Drew"”.
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Multiple Ways of Playing Serena and Blair: How Gossip Girl Revises the Role of Nancy Drew for a New Generation of Desiring-Machines
… Girl relates to its series predecessors, like Nancy Drew, demonstrates how the popularity of Gossip Girl is not unique, but rather fits in with the established series pattern while receiving the same harsh criticism. As a result of analyzing the "bad" reputation Gossip Girl has earned, we can …
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Women of Mystery and Romance: Tracing a Feminist Rewriting of the Detective Genre
… Collins's The Woman in White, Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew series, and Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series, each incorporate a combination of romance and detective fiction and feature a female investigator. The framework proves useful in assessing the achievements and failures in the …
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"A Self-Observing World of Observers": The American Serial Killer in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God and Contemporary True Crime Narratives
… the figure of the investigator which begins with Nancy Drew and develops through televisual girl detectives like the Pretty Little Liars and Veronica Mars.
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Sisterly Sleuths: The Hidden Cultural Work of Serial Modernism
… two teenage sleuth series, Carolyn Keene’s Nancy Drew (1930-2003) and Margaret Sutton’s Judy Bolton (1930-1967); and Sara Paretsky’s adult detective series V.I. Warshawski (1982-present).