The Promise of Destiny - Children and Women in the Short Stories of Louisa May Alcott

?This critique of Louisa May Alcott's story collection, Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, is the only book-length study of Alcott's shorter works. ... The study is most valuable as an analysis of women's roles, female destiny in the affirmation of the family, the duty of the maiden aunt, and the noble ends for the single woman--all through the 60 stories in the Scrap Bag. Louisa May Alcott's title carries metaphorical value: in the patchwork, women do the best they can with the available pieces. A necessary purchase for the tradition of female writers. Notes, bibliography, and index are valuable. Readable style.?-Choice

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Joy A. Marsella, Unknown
• Verlag: Bloomsbury
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.07.1983
• EAN: 9780313236037
• ISBN: 978-0-313-23603-7
• Themen: Ratgeber > Lebenshilfe, Alltag > Familie; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Gender studies: women, Age groups: children, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Classic fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, Current Events and Issues: Society