"With eight essays from a range of children’s literature scholars that examine historical influences on Alcott, the impact of illustrations in the various editions of the text, and the global reach and continued impact of the story of the March sisters, this is a valuable addition to the shelves of children’s literature enthusiasts. Excellent resources are included throughout for further study. Written specifically for this collection by leading scholars of Alcott and of 19th-century American literature in general, the essays provide important, fresh perspectives on the novel, Alcott herself, and 19th-century literature and society.
"To mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868), Shealy has brought together eight extremely relevant essays. Academics and literature students will savor these smart readings." - Publishers Weekly "The contributors do a great job of considering the classic novel in original, surprising lights. " - Anne Boyd Rioux, author of Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of “Little Women” and Why It Still Matters These essays open up new avenues of scholarship that have much to teach us about Little Women, Alcott’s oeuvre, US literature, and the US itself. " Little Women at 150 proves that Alcott’s classic deserves to be considered not only one of America’s most beloved novels, but also one of its richest and most important. A historical and critical introduction discusses the creation and publication of the novel, briefly traces the scholarly critical response, and demonstrates how these new essays show us that Little Women and its illustrations still have riches to reveal to its readers in the twenty-first century. Examining key issues about philanthropy, class, feminism, Marxism, Transcendentalism, canon formation, domestic labor, marriage, and Australian literature, Little Women at 150 presents new perspectives on one of the United States’ most enduring novels. Little Women at 150, a collection of eight original essays by scholars whose research and writings over the past twenty years have helped elevate Alcott’s reputation in the academic community, examines anew the enduring popularity of the novel and explores the myriad complexities of Alcott’s most famous work. Readers as diverse as Carson McCullers, Gloria Steinem, Theodore Roosevelt, Patti Smith, and J. This noble home also has a rich history stretching back two centuries.
Over the century and a half since its publication, the novel has grown into a cherished book for girls and boys alike. 1650) is most noted for being where Louisa May Alcott wrote and set Little Women in 1868.
Never out of print, Alcott’s tale of four sisters growing up in nineteenth-century New England has been published in more than fifty countries around the world. Phillips, Daniel Shealy, and Roberta Seelinger TritesĪs the golden age of children’s literature dawned in America in the mid-1860s, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, a work that many scholars view as one of the first realistic novels for young people, soon became a classic. The novel addressed three major themes: “domesticity, work, and true love, all of them interdependent and each necessary to the achievement of its heroine’s individual identity.Contributions by Beverly Lyon Clark, Christine Doyle, Gregory Eiselein, John Matteson, Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Anne K. Although Little Women was a novel for girls, it differed notably from the current writings for children, especially girls. Alcott also wrote two sequels to her popular work, both of which also featured the March sisters: Little Men (1871) and Jo’s Boys (1886). The two volumes were issued in 1880 in a single work entitled Little Women. Alcott quickly completed a second volume (entitled Good Wives in the United Kingdom, although this name derived from the publisher and not from Alcott). March sedang bekerja pada di medan perang pada saat itu. Novel ini berkisah tentang kehidupan empat perempuan bersaudara, mereka adalah Meg, Jo, Beth dan Amy March. Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, and readers demanded to know more about the characters. Little Women adalah novel klasik karya Louisa May Alcot. The novel follows the lives of four sisters-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March-detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 18.
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