LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION - Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Introduction, Janice M. Alberghene and Beverly Lyon Clark * Meg, Amy, Beth, Jo, and Marmee Face Life in the '80s, Victoria Roberts * Waiting Together: (Alcott on Matriarchy), Nina Auerbach * Alcotts' Civil War, JudithFetterley * Introduction to Little Women, Ann Douglas * Reading for Love: Canons, Paracanons, and Whistling Jo March, Catharine R. Stimpson * The Most Beautiful Things in All the World? Families in Little Women, ElizabethLennox Kayser * Portraying Little Women Through the Ages, Anne Hollander * Getting Cozy with a Classic: Visualizing Little Women, Susan R. Gannon * Queer Performances: Lesbian Politics, Roberta Seelinger Trites * Notes of a Resisting (Male) Reader, Jan Susina * In Jo's Garrett: The Space of Imagination, Sue Standing * A Power in the House: The Architecture of Individual Expression, David Watters * Prophets and Martyrs: Pilgrims and Missionaries, in Little Women and Jack andJill, Anne K. Phillips * Searching for Feminist Utopia, Kathryn Manson Tomasek * Transatlantic Translations: Communities of Education in Alcott and Bronte, ChristineDoyle Francis * Alcott's Response to Girls' Miseducation, Susan Laird * Rereading and Rewriting Alcott, Janice M.Alberghene * Songs to Aging Children: Alcott's March Trilogy, Michelle Masse * Alcott in Japan: A Selected Bibliography, Aiko Moro-oka * Selected Bibliography of Alcott Biography and Criticism, Beverly Lyon Clark andLinnea Hendrickson

About the author

Janice M. Alberghene, Beverly Lyon Clark

Summary

Raising key questions about race, class, sexuality, age, material culture, intellectual history, pedagogy, and gender, this book explores the myriad relationships between feminist thinking and "Little Women".

Product details

• Assisted by: Janice M Alberghene (Editor), Janice M. Alberghene (Editor), Alberghene Janice M. (Editor), Beverly Lyon Clark (Editor), Beverly Lyon Clark (Editor), Lyon Clark Beverly (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.1998
• EAN: 9780815320494
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-2049-4
• No. of pages: 494
• Weight: 1080 g
• Series: Children's Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, American English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form