Passionate friendship :

Shamoon, Deborah Michelle.

Passionate friendship : the aesthetics of girls' culture in Japan / Deborah Shamoon. - 1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-166) and index.

The emergence of the shōjo and the discourse of spiritual love in Meiji literature -- Prewar girls' culture (shōjo bunka), 1910-1937 -- Narrative and visual aesthetics of prewar girls' magazines -- The formation of postwar shōjo manga, 1950-1969 -- The revolution in 1970s shōjo manga.

9780824861117 (e-book)


Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism.--Japan
Teenage girls--Books and reading--History--Japan--20th century.
Teenage girls in popular culture--History--Japan--20th century.


Electronic books.

PN6790.J3 / S283 2012eb

305.235/20952