Contributor
Phillips, Anne K.
Imprint:Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, c2016.
Description1 online resource (xiii, 260 p.)
Note: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 Alcotts Critical Reception / Amy M. Thomas -- Feminist Alcott? / Katherine Adams -- t 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 / r Christopher Fahy -- Alcott and the Work of Nursing / Emily Waples -- Louisas Civil War / A. Waller Hastings -- Divas, Drugs, and Desire on Alcotts Gothic Stage / Monika Elbert -- "A Loving League of Sisters": The Legacy of Margaret Fullers 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
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
Note: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 popular with readers of all ages today. Essays in this volume take a closer look at Alcott, her beliefs, and her work in Little Women and its two sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited", along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendices offer a section of useful reference resources. -- Amazon.
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