Rediscovering Nancy Drew
- ISBN-10
- 0877455015
- ISBN-13
- 9780877455011
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 281
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995-05-01
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Authors
- Carolyn Stewart Dyer, Nancy Tillman Romalov
Description
Probes the character's impact on popular culture and feminism
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