Little Women and the Feminist Imagination (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) [Hardcover]

Janice M. Alberghene (Editor), Beverly Lyon Clark (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0815320493 | ISBN-13: 978-0815320494 | Publication Date: December 1, 1998 | Edition: 1st

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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (December 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815320493
• ISBN-13: 978-0815320494
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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