Understood Betsy, Understood Nation: Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Willa Cather Queer America

Cummins argues that Dorothy Canfield Fisher's classic text, Understood Betsy, stands outside of other books about the transformative effects of nature by linking the transformation of the heroine with her newfound identity as an American and leading, ultimately, to the transformation of the rea...

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Published in:Children's literature (Storrs, Conn.) Conn.), 2004, Vol.32 (1), p.15-40
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Novels
Personality
Self Actualization
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