Research Catalog

Title

Little women / editors, Gregory Eiselein, Anne K. Phillips.

Publication

• Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Eiselein, Gregory, 1965-
• Phillips, Anne K.

Description

xii, 244 pages; 24 cm.

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

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Subjects

• Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 > Criticism and interpretation
• Middle class in literature
• Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 > Little women
• Young women in literature

Note

• Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

Call Number

JFE 15-3806

ISBN

• 9781619254275
• 1619254271

OCLC

907066478

Title

Little women / editors, Gregory Eiselein, Anne K. Phillips.

Publisher

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Edition

[First edition].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Eiselein, Gregory, 1965- editor.

Phillips, Anne K., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-3806