Critical Insights: Little Women

Publisher Salem Press

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2015

ISBN13

9781619254282

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Women's History Collection on Gale eBooks for Middle and High School Students
Overview

In-depth critical discussions of Louisa May Alcott's novel.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
The Book and Author.
1: On Little Women: The Unexpected and Enduring Significance of Louisa May Alcott's Most Famous Novel.
2: Biography of Louisa May Alcott: Delineating Fiction from Memoir in Little Women.
Critical Contexts.
3: Little Women in Its Time.
4: The Critical Reception of Little Women.
5: “Picking the World to Pieces”: Little Women and Secularization.
6: Mignon's Song in America: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Little Women.
Critical Readings.
7: Quinny-Dingles, Quirks, and Queer-Looking Men: “Regularizing” Little Women.
8: “The Precious Home Letters:” Letter-Writing in Little Women.
9: It's Complicated: Jo March's Marriage to Writing and Professor Bhaer.
10: “Up the Steep Hill by Trying”: The Unorthodox Christianity of Little Women.
11: Beneath the Umbrellas of Benevolent Men: Validating the Middle-Class Woman in Little Women and Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.
12: “Dishes and Dusters”: Valuing Beth's Labor in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women; or, Staying in for Service.
13: Unsettling Engagements in Moods and Little Women; or, Learning to Love Louisa May Alcott.
14: Alcott's “Funny Match” for Jo.
15: “Jo March Is Pregnant and Laurie's the Father”: Re-Visioning Little Women in Fan Fiction.
Resources.
Chronology of Louisa May Alcott's Life.
Works by Louisa May Alcott.
Bibliography.
About the Editors.
Contributors.
Index.
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