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A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Louisa May Alcott and the critical discussions surrounding her work. A 19th century American novelist of the transcendentalist school, Louisa May Alcott is most renowned for Little Women, a coming-of-age children's tale still popula...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Phillips, Anne K. (Editor), Eiselein, Gregory, 1965- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing, [2016]
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
Alcott, Louisa May, > 1832-1888 > Criticism and interpretation.
Table of Contents:
  • About This Volume / Anne K. Phillips, Gregory Eiselein. On Louisa May Alcott: Questions on Her Significance, Singularity, Sorority, and Staying Power / Anne K. Phillips, Gregory Eiselein
  • "Happy Before I Die": The Strife and Success of Louisa May Alcott / Amy Harris-Aber
  • "When Rude Hands Shake the Hive": Louisa May Alcott and the Transformation of America / John Matteson
  • Looking for Louisa: Authors, Audiences, and Literatures in Alcott's Critical Reception / Amy M. Thomas
  • Feminist Alcott? / Katherine Adams
  • Poverty and Social Critique in Postbellum America: Little Women and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Kristen B. Proehl
  • Lost in the Vortex: The Problem of Genius in the Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott / Christopher Fahy
  • Alcott and the Work of Nursing / Emily Waples
  • Louisa's Civil War / A. Waller Hastings
  • Divas, Drugs, and Desire on Alcott's Gothic Stage / Monika Elbert
  • "A Loving League of Sisters": The Legacy of Margaret Fuller's Boston Conversations in Alcott's Work / Katie Kornacki
  • "Polly, Pygmalion, and the (Im)practicalities of an Independent Womanhood" / Marilyn Bloss Koester
  • Violence and Confinement in Little Men / Antoinette M. Tadolini
  • A Faith Truly Lived: Alcott's Use of Biblical Allusion in Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom / Mo Li
  • American Girls and American Literature: Louisa May Alcott "Talks Back" to Henry James / Christine Doyle
  • Louisa May Alcott, Patti Smith, and Punk Aesthetics / Gregory Eiselein. Chronology of Louisa May Alcott's Life. Works by Louisa May Alcott