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Scholarship

Diana Beeson. "Translating Nancy Drew from Fiction to Film." The Lion and the Unicorn 18 (1994): 37-47.

Esther Green Bierbaum. "Bad Books in Series: Nancy Drew and the Public Library." The Lion and the Unicorn 18.1 (1994): 92-102.

Troy Boone. "The Juvenile Detective and Social Class: Mark Twain, Scouting for Girls, and the Nancy Drew Mysteries." Mystery in Children's Literature: From the Rational to the Supernatural. Ed. Adrienne E. Gavin and Christopher Routledge. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave, 2001. 46-63.

Susan Brooker-Gross. "Landscape and Social Values in Popular Children's Literature: Nancy Drew Mysteries." Journal of Geography 88 (1981): 59-64.

Ellen Brown. "In Search of Nancy Drew, the Snow Queen, and Room Nineteen: Cruising for Feminine Discourse." Frontiers 13.2 (1992): 1-25.

Carol S. Chadwick. "Nancy Drew — The Perfect Solution." Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life. Ed. Nancy Owen Nelson. Denton: U of North Texas P, 1995. 41-53.

Kathleen Chamberlain. "The Secrets of Nancy Drew: Having Their Cake and Eating It Too." The Lion and the Unicorn 18 (1994): 1-12.

Kathleen Chamberlain and Carolyn Sigler. "Therapeutic Nancy Drew." Review of The Mystery of Nancy Drew: Girl Sleuth on the Couch, by Betsy Caprio. The Lion and the Unicorn 18 (1994): 107-10.

Alisa Clapp-Itnyre. Rev. of Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls Series, ed. Sherrie A. Inness. The Lion and the Unicorn 26.1 (2002): 137-42.

Karen Coats. "The Mysteries of Postmodern Epistemology: Stratemeyer, Stine, and Contemporary Mystery for Children." Mystery in Children's Literature: From the Rational to the Supernatural. Ed. Adrienne E. Gavin and Christopher Routledge. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave, 2001. 184-201.

Sol Cohen. "Minority Stereotypes in Children's Literature: The Bobbsey Twins, 1904-1968." Educational Forum Nov. 1969: 119-25.

J. Randolph Cox. "Stratemeyer Unmasked." Review of Edward Stratemeyer and the Literary Syndicate, by Deidre Johnson. The Lion and the Unicorn 18 (1994): 103-06.

Robert L. Crawford. "Rewriting the Past in Children's Literature: The Hardy Boys and Other Series." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 18.1 (1993): 10-12.

Paul C. Deane, "The Persistence of Uncle Tom: An Examination of the Images of the Negro in Children's Fiction Series." Journal of Negro Education Spring 1968: 140-45.

Melinda de Jesús. "Fictions of Assimilation: Nancy Drew, Cultural Imperialism, and The Filipina/American Experience." Delinquints and Debutantes: Twentieth-Century Girls' Cultures. Ed. Sherrie A. Inness. New York: New York UP, 1998. 227-46.

Ken Donelson. "Nancy, Tom and Assorted Friends in the Stratemeyer Syndicate Then and Now." Children's Literature 7 (1978): 17-44.

Carolyn Stewart Dyer. "The Nancy Drew Phenomenon: Rediscovering Nancy Drew in Iowa." Rediscovering Nancy Drew. Ed. Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Nancy Tillman Romalov. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995.

Dina Eng. "Befriending Nancy Drew Across Cultural Boundaries." Rediscovering Nancy Drew. Ed. Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Nancy Tillman Romalov. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995. 140-42.

Njeri Fuller. "Fixing Nancy Drew: African American Strategies for Reading." Rediscovering Nancy Drew. Ed. Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Nancy Tillman Romalov. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995. 136-39.

Ann Haugland. "The Crack in the Old Canon: Culture and Commerce in Children's Books." The Lion and the Unicorn 18 (1994): 48-59.

Carolyn Heilbrun. "Nancy Drew: A Moment in Feminist History." Rediscovering Nancy Drew. Ed. Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Nancy Tillman Romalov. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995. 11-21.

Deidre Johnson. "From Abbott to Animorphs, from Godly Books to Goosebumps: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Modern Series." Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America. Ed. Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 147-65.

Sherrie A. Inness. Introduction. Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls' Series. Ed. Sherrie A. Inness. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State U Popular P, 1997. 1-13.

—. "Is Nancy Drew Queer?: Popular Reading Strategies for the Lesbian Reader." Women's Studies 26.3-4 (July 1997): 343-72.

—. "Reflecting on Girls' Series." Rev. of The Girl Sleuth, by Bobbie Ann Mason; Rediscovering Nancy Drew, ed. Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Nancy Tillman Romalov. Children's Literature 25 (1997): 255-61.

Deidre Johnson. "Nancy Drew — A Modern Elsie Dinsmore?" The Lion and the Unicorn 18.1 (1994): 13-24.

James P. Jones. "Nancy Drew: WASP Supergirl of the 1930s." Journal of Popular Culture 6 (1973): 707-17.

—. "Negro Stereotypes in Children's Literature: The Case of Nancy Drew." The Journal of Negro Education Spring 1971: 121-25.

Eric N. Jung. "Taking the 'Detective' Out of Nancy Drew." VOYA 20.5 (1997): 303-08.

Carolyn Keene [Harriet Stratemeyer Adams]. "Nancy Drew." The Great Detectives. Ed. Otto Penzler. Boston: Little, 1978. 79-86.

Eloise Knowlton. "Unknowns Made Known: Nancy Drew's Enigmatic Evasion." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 20.1 (1995): 19-22.

Geoffrey S. Lapin. "Nancy Drew Nostalgia." Review of The Nancy Drew Scrapbook: 60 Years of America's Favorite Teenage Sleuth, by Karen Plunkett-Powell. The Lion and the Unicorn 18 (1994): 111-12.

—. "The Outline of a Ghost." The Lion and the Unicorn 18 (1994): 60-69.

Donnarae MacCann. "Nancy Drew and the Myth of White Supremacy." Rediscovering Nancy Drew. Ed. Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Nancy Tillman Romalov. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1995. 129-35.

J. Frederick MacDonald. "'The Foreigner' in Juvenile Series Fiction, 1900-1945." Journal of Popular Culture Winter 1974: 534-48.

Anne Scott MacLeod. "Nancy Drew and Her Rivals: No Contest," Part II. Horn Book 63 (1987): 422-50.

Elizabeth Marshall. "Red, White, and Drew: The All-American Girl and the Case of Gendered Childhood. Children's Literature Association Quarterly 27.4 (2003): 203-11.

Jodi L. McEndarfer. "Feminism in Adolescent Literature: A Literature Review of Nancy Drew." Online: http://www.iusb.edu/~journal/1999/Paper12.html.

Tim Morris. "Returning to the Hardy Boys." Raritan: A Quarterly Review 16.3 (1997): 123-42.

Gerard O'Connor. "The Hardy Boys Revisited: A Study in Prejudice." Challenges in American Culture. Ed. Ray B. Browne, Larry N. Landrum, and William K. Bottorff. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green U Popular P, 1970. 234-41.

Radhika Parameswaran. "Nancy Drew and Her Passage to India." The Lion and the Unicorn 18 (1994): 78-80.

—. "Reading Nancy Drew in Urban India: Gender, Postcolonialism, and Memories of Home." Defining Print Culture for Youth: The Cultural Work of Children's Literature. Ed. Anne Lundin and Wayne A. Wiegand. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2003. 169-95.

Sally E. Parry. "The Secret of the Feminist Heroine: The Search for Values in Nancy Drew and Judy Bolton." Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls' Series. Ed. Sherrie A. Inness. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State U Popular P, 1997. 145-58.

Anne K. Phillips. "Additional 'Variations': Further Developments in Feminist Theory and Children's Literature." Review of Harvesting Thistles: The Textual Garden of L.M. Montgomery, ed. Mary Henley Rubio; Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls' Series, ed. Sherrie A. Inness; Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels, by Roberta Seelinger Trites. Children's Literature 27 (1999): 223-32.

Louis Phillips. "Me and the Hardy Boys." Armchair Detective 15.2 (1982): 174-77.

Jacqueline Reid-Walsh and Claudia Mitchell. "The Case of the Whistle-Blowing Girls: Nancy Drew and Her Readers." Textual Studies in Canada 13-14 (2001): 15-24.

Lucy Rollin. "The Mysterious and the Uncanny in Nancy Drew and Harriet the Spy." Psychoanalytic Responses to Children's Literature. By Lucy Rollin and Mark I. West. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999. 23-29.

Nancy Tillman Romalov. "Editor's Note." The Lion and the Unicorn 18 (1994): vi-xi.

—. "Lady and the Tramps: The Cultural Work of Gypsies in Nancy Drew and Her Foremothers." The Lion and the Unicorn 18 (1994): 25-36.

—. "Press Conference with Mildred Wirt Benson — April 17, 1993." The Lion and the Unicorn 18 (1994): 81-91.

Catherine Sheldrick Ross. "If They Read Nancy Drew, So What? Series Book Readers Talk Back." Library and Information Science Research 17.3 (1995): 201-36.

Deborah L. Siegel. "Nancy Drew as New Girl Wonder: Solving it all for the 1930s." Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls' Series. Ed. Sherrie A. Inness. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State U Popular P, 1997. 159-82.

Kari Skjonsberg. "Nancy, a.k.a. Kitty, Susanne, Alice — in Norway and Other European Countries." The Lion and the Unicorn 18 (1994): 70-77.

Peter A. Soderbergh. "The Stratemeyer Strain: Educators and the Juvenile Series Book, 1900-1973." Journal of Popular Culture 7.4 (1974): 864-72.

Mary Helen Stefaniak. "'An Affectionate Satire'; or, Roasting Nancy Drew." The Lion and the Unicorn 18 (1994): 113-17.

Gary Westfahl. "Mystery of the Amateur Detectives: Gary Westfahl Writes about the Early Days of the Hardy Boys." Million: The Magazine about Popular Fiction 14 (1993): 24-32.

Meredith Wood. "Footprints from the Past: Passing Racial Stereotypes in the Hardy Boys." Re/Collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History. Ed. Josephine Lee, Imogene L. Lim, and Yuko Matsukawa. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002. 238-54.

Lee Zacharias. "Nancy Drew, Ballbuster." The Journal of Popular Culture 4 (1976): 1027-38.


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