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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:
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 from all standard critical perspectives - social, gender, post-modern, psychological, and cultural. - Amazon.com
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