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A Man for Marcy
Just when Marcy was starting to have fun, Ken and Steve head off to college. She'll miss her goofy brother, of course, but the loss of Steve... it's just brutal. The two have a last date where they drive around town and hit all of their old haunts. They promise to write but reluctantly decide to date other people, or what fun would Marcy's senior year and Steve's freshman year be?
Marcy and some of the other senior girls, who all dated older boys, form a club called "the Widows" so they can get together and commiserate, but get this... Liz has the audacity to date Bix. Who's in their grade! And kind of goofy! But things get even worse for Marcy when her mother decides to GO BACK TO WORK. The hospital is having trouble with staffing, and even though a lot of work will fall to Marcy, and George Rhodes is going to have to adjust his social life, she really wants to go back. They don't need the money,
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Wait For Marcy
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For the last couple of years I’ve been working on a project that analyzes American teen girl romance novels of the post-war and Cold War period (think novels by Mary Stolz, Betty Cavanna, Anne Emery, Rosamond du Jardin, Janet Lambert, and Amelia Elizabeth Walden, among others). I am in love with these books. Like: totally, butt-crazy in love. And so it’s been interesting to finally sit down and analyze them (using a New Historicist methodology, predominantly), and to attempt to understand exactly how these novels fit into their larger cultural milieu.
Of the few scholars who really examine these texts, most agree with Anne Scott MacLeod (who is, by the way, seriously awesome) that these are texts that are detached from their historical surroundings, and that demonstrate “with particular clarity the ambiguity of children’s literature as cultural documentation” (American Childhood 50). She notes that these novels are focused on domesticity and happy endings, not the controversial issues (the Cold War, the nuclear bomb, the Civil Rights movement, McCarthyism, among so many others) that we usually associate with their period of publication. The result of this focus is that
“even in a politically quiescent atmosphere, and even for a literature tr