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1 online resource |
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Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Contents |
About This Volume/rGregory Eiselein & Anne K. Phillips. The Book and the Author. On Little Women: The Unexpected and Enduring Significance of Louisa May Alcott's Most Famous Novel/Gregory Eiselein & Anne K. Phillips -- Biography of Louisa May Alcott: Delineating Fiction from Memoir in Little Women/Anne K. Phillips. Critical Contexts. Little Women in Its Time/ Daniel Shealy -- The Critical Reception of Little Women/ Beverly Lyon Clark -- "Picking the World to Pieces": Little Women and Secularization/Bruce Ronda -- Mignon's Song in America: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Little Women/ Christine Doyle. Critical Readings. Quinny-Dingles/ Quirks/ and Queer-Looking Men: "Regularizing" Little Women/ Anne K. Phillips -- "The precious home letters." Letter-Writing in Little Women/Theresa Strouth Gaul -- It's Complicated: Jo March's Marriage to Writing and Professor Bhaer/Marlowe Daly-Galeano -- "Up the Steep Hill by Trying": The Unorthodox Christianity of Little Women/ R. Eric Tippin -- Beneath the Umbrellas of Benevolent Men: Validating the Middle-Class Woman in Little Women and Five Little Peppers and How They Grew/ Sandra Burr -- "dishes and dusters": Valuing Beth's Labor in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women; or, Staying in for Service/ Lorinda B. Cohoon -- Unsettling Engagements in Moods and Little Women; or, Learning to Love Louisa May Alcott/ Sarah Wadsworth -- Alcott's "Funny Match" for Jo/ Elise Barker -- "Jo March Is Pregnant and Laurie's The Father": Re-Visioning Little Women in Fan Fiction/ Lauren Rizzuto. Resources. Chronology of Louisa May Alcott's Life -- Works by Louisa May Alcott -- Bibliography -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
This book provides readers with a collection of essays and in-depth discussions of Louisa May Alcott's novel, "Little Women". A chronology of Alcott's life, a complete list of Alcott's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index are also provided |
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Edition statement supplied by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Little women.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007155436
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Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. fast (OCoLC)fst00043946 |
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Little women (Alcott, Louisa May) fast (OCoLC)fst01360526 |
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Young women in literature.
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Middle class in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Middle class in literature.
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Young women in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Eiselein, Gregory, 1965- editor.
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Phillips, Anne K., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781619254282 |
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161925428X |
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