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Little Women, a unique combination of romance, coming of age tale and family drama, paved the way for a new form of literature, and changed the conversation regarding a women's journey from childhood to womenhood. This work surveys the critical conversation regarding Alcott's achievement f...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Eiselein, Gregory, 1965- (Editor), Phillips, Anne K. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, New York : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing, [2015]
Edition:[First edition].
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
Alcott, Louisa May, > 1832-1888. > Little women.
Alcott, Louisa May, > 1832-1888 > Criticism and interpretation.
Young women in literature.
Middle class in literature.
Table of 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.