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Louisa May Alcott : the contemporary reviews.
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ISBN: 0521827809 0511187866 9780511187865 9780521827805 0511185170 9780511185175 0511186932 9780511186936 0511189702 9780511189708 0511186002 9780511186004 9780511485589 0511485581 1316085996 9781316085998 1280541261 9781280541261 0511313845 9780511313844 9780521155397 0521155398 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press

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This collection of nineteenth-century reviews provides a wealth of information for scholars interested in Alcott (increasing the number of indexed reviews almost tenfold) but also insight into the ways in which reading audiences were constructed in the nineteenth-century United States. The reviews provide a window on to nineteenth-century attitudes toward popular fiction and toward women writers. The author of the novels and of sensational tales, of travel writing and of temperance tracts, Alcott was both highly popular and highly respected. Her works were reviewed not just in magazines for children, but also in the most prestigious literary journals of the day.

Alcott in her own time
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ISBN: 1587295989 9781587295980 0877459371 9780877459378 087745938X 9780877459385 Year: 2005 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa Press

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By 1888, twenty years after the publication of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was one of the most popular and successful authors America had yet produced. In her pre-Little Women days, she concocted blood-and-thunder tales for low wages; post-Little Women, she specialized in domestic novels and short stories for children. Collected here for the first time are the reminiscences of people who knew her, the majority of which have not been published since their original appearance in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the printed recollections in this book appeared after Alcott

Clinging to Mammy
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ISBN: 0674040791 9780674040793 9780674024335 0674024338 0674265963 9780674265967 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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Loving, hating, pitying, or pining for mammy became a way for Americans to make sense of shifting economic, social, and racial realities. Assertions of black contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. McElya's stories expose the power and reach of this myth, not only in advertising, films, and literature about the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custody cases, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement.

Twain, Alcott, and the birth of the adolescent reform novel
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ISBN: 1587297701 9781587297700 9781587296222 1587296225 Year: 2007 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa Press

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Trites argues that Twain and Alcott wrote on similar topics because they were so deeply affected by the Civil War, by cataclysmic emotional and financial losses in their families, by their cultural immersion in the tenets of Protestant philosophy, and by sexual tensions that may have stimulated their interest in writing for adolescents, Trites demonstrates how the authors participated in a cultural dynamic that marked the changing nature of adolescence in America, provoking a literary sentiment that continues to inform young adult literature. Both intuited that the transitory nature of adolesc

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Adolescence in literature. --- Young adult fiction, American --- History and criticism. --- Alcott, Louisa May, --- Twain, Mark, --- Alcott, Louisa May --- Alcott, Louisa M. --- Alcott, L. M. --- Alkūt, Luwīzā --- Aunt Jo's scrap-bag, Author of --- Aunt Kipp, Author of --- Author of An old-fashioned girl --- Author of Aunt Jo's scrap-bag --- Author of Aunt Kipp --- Author of Eight cousins --- Author of Hospital sketches --- Author of Kitty's class-day --- Author of Little men --- Author of Little women --- Author of Moods --- Author of Psyche's art --- Author of Work --- Barnard, A. M. --- Eight cousins, Author of --- Hospital sketches, Author of --- Kitty's class-day, Author of --- Little men, Author of --- Little women, Author of --- Moods, Author of --- Old-fashioned girl, Author of --- Olʹkot, Luiza --- Psyche's art, Author of --- Work, Author o, --- Олкотт, Луиза Мэй --- אלקוט, לואיזה מיי, --- ألكوت، لويزا مي --- ルイザメイオルコット, --- アルコツトルイザメイ, --- オルコツトルイザメイ, --- Twain, Mark --- Tvėn, Mark --- Tuėĭn, Mark --- Tuwayn, Mārk --- Twayn, Mārk --- Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo --- Tven, M. --- Touen, Makū --- Twain, Marek --- Make Tuwen --- Tuwen, Make --- Make Teviin --- Твен, Марк --- Touain, Mark --- טבןַ, מרק, --- טוויין, מארק, --- טוויין, מרק, --- טווין, מארק, --- טווין, מרק, --- טווען, מארק, --- טוין, מרק, --- טװען, מארק, --- טװײן, מארק, --- 馬克吐温, --- Tuvāyn, Mārk --- Tvāyn, Mārk --- تواين، مارک --- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne --- Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius --- Conte, Louis de --- Influence. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- adolescenten --- jeugdliteratuur --- Adolescence in literature --- History and criticism


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Little women
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ISBN: 9781619254282 161925428X 9781619254275 1619254271 Year: 2015 Publisher: Ipswich, Massachusetts Amenia, NY

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This book provides readers with a collection of essays and in-depth discussions of Louisa May Alcott's novel, "Little Women". A chronology of Alcott's life, a complete list of Alcott's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index are also provided.

Victorian domesticity
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ISBN: 9780817390433 081739043X 0817302379 9780817302375 9780817390433 081739043X 0817312544 Year: 1985 Publisher: University, Ala. University of Alabama Press

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Families in literature. --- March family (Fictitious characters) --- Feminism and literature --- Authors, American --- Families --- Women and literature --- Domestic fiction, American --- Family in literature --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- History --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Alcott, Louisa May, --- Alcott, Louisa May --- Alcott, Louisa M. --- Alcott, L. M. --- Alkūt, Luwīzā --- Aunt Jo's scrap-bag, Author of --- Aunt Kipp, Author of --- Author of An old-fashioned girl --- Author of Aunt Jo's scrap-bag --- Author of Aunt Kipp --- Author of Eight cousins --- Author of Hospital sketches --- Author of Kitty's class-day --- Author of Little men --- Author of Little women --- Author of Moods --- Author of Psyche's art --- Author of Work --- Barnard, A. M. --- Eight cousins, Author of --- Hospital sketches, Author of --- Kitty's class-day, Author of --- Little men, Author of --- Little women, Author of --- Moods, Author of --- Old-fashioned girl, Author of --- Olʹkot, Luiza --- Psyche's art, Author of --- Work, Author o, --- Олкотт, Луиза Мэй --- אלקוט, לואיזה מיי, --- ألكوت، لويزا مي --- ルイザメイオルコット, --- アルコツトルイザメイ, --- オルコツトルイザメイ,


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Emancipation's daughters : reimagining black femininity and the national body
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ISBN: 147809091X 1478009918 1478012501 1478010975 Year: 2021 Publisher: Durham ; London : Duke University Press,

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"Riché Richardson examines how five iconic black women--Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Obama, and Beyoncé--defy racial stereotypes and construct new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States."--


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American bards
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ISBN: 1469606356 0807899429 9780807899427 9781469606354 9780807834213 0807834211 1469615215 9798893133288 Year: 2010 Publisher: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press

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Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States. Whitman himself encouraged this view, but he was also quick to remind his readers that he was an unlikely candidate for the office of national poet, and that his working-class upbringing and radical take on human sexuality often put him at odds with American culture. While American literary history has tended to credit Whitman with having invented the persona of the national outsider as the national bard, Edward Whitley recovers three of


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Emmeline B. Wells
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ISBN: 1607815249 9781607815242 9781607815235 1607815230 Year: 2017 Publisher: Salt Lake City

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"Emmeline B. Wells was the most noted Utah Mormon woman of her time. Lauded nationally for her energetic support of the women's rights movement of the nineteenth century, she was a self-made woman who channeled her lifelong sense of destiny into ambitious altruism. Her public acclaim and activism belied the introspective, self-appraising, and emotional persona she expressed in the pages of her forty-seven extant diaries. After reconciling herself to the heartaches of plural marriage, she pursued a self-directed life in earnest and wrote, "I have risen triumphant." This new biography tells the story of the private Emmeline. The unusual circumstances of her several marriages, the complicated lives of her five daughters, the losses and disappointments interspersed with bright moments and achievements, all engendered the idea that her life was a romance, with the mysterious, tragic, and sentimental elements of that genre. This volume, drawing heavily on Emmeline Wells's own words, tells the complicated story of a woman of ambition, strength, tenderness, and faith"--Provided by publisher.

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