LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION
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LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION

Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays

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LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION

Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays

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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, a novel that has touched many women's lives. A critical introduction traces 130 years of popular and critical response, and the collection presents 11 new essays, two new bibliographies, and reprints of six classic essays.
The contributors examine the history of illustrating Little Women; Alcott's use of domestic architecture as codes of female self-expression; the tradition of utopian writing by women; relationship to works by British and African American writers; recent thinking about feminist pedagogy; the significance of the novel for women writers, and its implications from the vantage points of middle-aged scholar, parent, and resisting male reader.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
9781135593254
Edition
1
Topic
Littérature
Subtopic
Critique littéraire
INDEX
AAUW xxxii, 286, 287, 290, 291, 294, 295
Abbott, Jacob xxvii, 44
Abbott, Lyman xxiv
abolitionism 22, 239, 289, 313, 351–353
Addams, Jane xv, xix
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain) xxx, 61, 80n.28
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain) xxviii, 81n.33, 164, 168
African Americans xl, 65–67, 293, 311, 313, 321n.81, 329, 347, 350–370. See also interracial love; race; racism
age
hierarchies of 19, 69, 341
Jo’s views on 51, 94
veneration for xlviin.64
Alberghene, Janice M. xxxix–xl
Alcott, Abigail (Abba) 45–48, 56, 61, 84, 187, 271, 289, 295
Alcott, Anna xvii, 45, 47, 84, 85, 241, 267
Alcott, Bronson
childrearing and pedagogical practices of 45–47, 83–84, 187, 213–214, 235n.20, 245–246, 261, 267, 271–272, 288, 295–296
establishment of Fruitlands 22, 26n.24, 47–48, 84, 173, 238–240, 243, 248–249
marriage to Abba 45–48, 187
philosophical idealism of xxvi, xxxii, 24n.5, 45, 57–58, 61, 84, 246–247, 332
relationship with Louisa 47, 52, 83–84, 104, 157n.16
scholarship devoted to xxvi–xxvii, xlixn.81
Alcott, Elizabeth xvii, 45, 84, 85
Alcott, John Pratt 120
Alcott, Louisa May
ambivalence toward self xxxi, 27–29, 40, 77, 142, 159n.37
autobiographical...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. GENERAL EDITOR’S FOREWORD
  8. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  9. INTRODUCTION
  10. CARTOON—LITTLE WOMEN: MEG, AMY, BETH, JO AND MARMEE FACE LIFE IN THE ’80s
  11. WAITING TOGETHER: ALCOTT ON MATRIARCHY
  12. LITTLE WOMEN: ALCOTT’S CIVIL WAR
  13. INTRODUCTION TO LITTLE WOMEN
  14. READING FOR LOVE: CANONS, PARACANONS, AND WHISTLING JO MARCH
  15. “THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS IN ALL THE WORLD”? FAMILIES IN LITTLE WOMEN
  16. PORTRAYING LITTLE WOMEN THROUGH THE AGES
  17. GETTING COZY WITH A CLASSIC: VISUALIZING LITTLE WOMEN (1868–1995)
  18. “QUEER PERFORMANCES”: LESBIAN POLITICS IN LITTLE WOMEN
  19. MEN AND LITTLE WOMEN: NOTES OF A RESISTING (MALE) READER
  20. IN JO’S GARRET: LITTLE WOMEN AND THE SPACE OF IMAGINATION
  21. “A POWER IN THE HOUSE”: LITTLE WOMEN AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF INDIVIDUAL EXPRESSION
  22. THE PROPHETS AND THE MARTYRS: PILGRIMS AND MISSIONARIES IN LITTLE WOMEN AND JACK AND JILL
  23. A GREATER HAPPINESS: SEARCHING FOR FEMINIST UTOPIA IN LITTLE WOMEN
  24. TRANSATLANTIC TRANSLATIONS: COMMUNITIES OF EDUCATION IN ALCOTT AND BRONTË
  25. LEARNING FROM MARMEE’S TEACHING: ALCOTT’S RESPONSE TO GIRLS’ MISEDUCATION
  26. SONGS TO AGING CHILDREN: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT’S MARCH TRILOGY
  27. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND THE BOUNDARIES OF INTERPRETATION: ON READING LITTLE WOMEN AND THE LIVING IS EASY
  28. ALCOTT IN JAPAN: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  29. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALCOTT BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM
  30. CONTRIBUTORS
  31. INDEX