Victorian Domesticity: Families in the Life and Art of Louisa May Alcott (Paperback)

by Charles Strickland (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal
Strickland contends that the confrontation between Alcott's own experience of ``sentimental'' family life and the ``reality of life in nineteenth century America'' generated the materials of both her domestic and melodramatic fiction, including the neglected ``adult'' novels Moods and Work. His interesting readings of Alcott's fiction would have benefitted from a recognition of the immense debt she owed to Wilkie Collins and Charlotte Yonge. The book falters on Strickland's curious identification of the term ``sentimental revolution'' with transformations in early 19th-century thought about marriage and child nurture. By trivializing as ``sentimental'' humanitarian and philosophical currents in European thought from Locke to Rousseau and beyond which recognized the rights of infants and the importance of a child's early years, Strickland makes Alcott into a far more original and yet far more parochial figure than she was. Barbara J. Dunlap, City Coll. Lib,
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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: University Alabama Press (August 6, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0817312544
• ISBN-13: 978-0817312541
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.6 inches
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