Louisa May Alcott And The Textual Child

Author : Kristina West
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303039025X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louisa May Alcott and the Textual Child written by Kristina West and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines constructions of childhood in the works of Louisa May Alcott. While Little Women continues to gain popular and critical attention, Alcott’s wider works for children have largely been consigned to history. This book therefore investigates Alcott’s lesser-known children’s texts to reconsider critical assumptions about childhood in her works and in literature more widely. Kristina West investigates the trend towards reading Alcott’s life into her works; readings of gender and sexuality, race, disability, and class; the sentimental domestic; portrayals of Transcendentalism and American education; and adaptations of these works. Analyzing Alcott as a writer for twenty-first-century children, West considers Alcott’s place in the children’s canon and how new media and fan fiction impact readings of her works today.

Author : Beatrice Gormley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689820259
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louisa May Alcott written by Beatrice Gormley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the author of the well-loved stories of the March sisters, "Little Women" and its sequels.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393072193
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Annotated Little Women written by Louisa May Alcott and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer of Louisa May Alcott illuminates the world of Little Women and its author. Since its publication in 1868–69, Little Women, perhaps America’s most beloved children’s classic, has been handed down from mother to daughter for generations. It has been translated into more than fifty languages and inspired six films, four television shows, a Broadway musical, an opera, and a web series. This lavish, four-color edition features over 220 curated illustrations, including stills from the films, stunning art by Norman Rockwell, and iconic illustrations by children’s-book illustrators Alice Barber Stevens, Frank T. Merrill, and Jessie Wilcox Smith. Renowned Alcott scholar John Matteson brings his expertise to the book, to the March family it creates, and to the Alcott family who inspired it all. Through numerous photographs taken in the Alcott family home expressly for this edition—elder daughter Anna’s wedding dress, the Alcott sisters’ theater costumes, sister May’s art, and Abba Alcott’s recipe book—readers discover the extraordinary links between the real and the fictional family. Matteson’s annotations evoke the once-used objects and culture of a distant but still-relevant time, from the horse-drawn carriages to the art Alcott carefully placed in her story to references to persons little known today. His brilliant introductory essays examine Little Women’s pivotal place in children’s literature and tell the story of Alcott herself—a tale every bit as captivating as her fiction.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813512723
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Alcott written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery in recent years of Louisa May Alcott's pseudonymous sensation stories has made readers and scholars increasingly aware of her accomplishments beyond her most famous novel, Little Women, one of the great international best-sellers of all time. This anthology brings together for the first time a variety of Louisa May Alcott's journalistic, satiric, feminist, and sensation texts. Elaine Showalter has provided an excellent introduction and notes to the collection.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Women written by Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0440223016
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Long Fatal Love Chase written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Dell. This book was released on 1996-12-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom," cries impetuous Rosamond Vivian to her callous grandfather. Then, one stormy night, a brooding stranger appears in her remote island home, ready to take Rosamond to her word. Spellbound by the mysterious Philip Tempest, Rosamond is seduced with promises of love and freedom, then spirited away on Tempest's sumptuous yacht. But she soon finds herself trapped in a web of intrigue, cruelty, and deceit. Desperate to escape, she flees to Italy, France, and Germany, from Parisian garret to mental asylum, from convent to chateau, as Tempest stalks every step of the fiery beauty who has become his obsession. A story of dark love and passionate obsession that was considered "too sensational" to be published in the authors lifetime, A Long Fatal Love Chase was written for magazine serialization in 1866, two years before the publication of Little Women. Buried among Louisa May Alcott's papers for more than a century, its publication is a literary landmark—a novel that is bold, timeless, and mesmerizing."

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359230091
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. / a classic children's novel / written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deborah Noyes
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
ISBN 13 : 0525646256
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hopeful Heart written by Deborah Noyes and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Little Women-- the beloved literary classic and inspiration for Greta Gerwig's acclaimed feature film adaptation--come to be? This stunning biography explores the unique family and unusual circumstances of literary icon Louisa May Alcott. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. How did these cherished characters come to be? Louisa May Alcott, the author of one of the most famous "girl" books of all time, was anything but a well-mannered young lady. A tomboy as well as a ravenous reader, Louisa took comfort in fictional characters that were as passionate and willful as she was--and whose wild imaginations were a match for her own. She was often found roaming the woods near her home in Concord, Massachusetts, or exploring the natural world in the company of the great Transcendentalist thinkers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Here is a beautiful portrait of Louisa May Alcott, a woman influenced by her father, a penniless philosopher, her mother, with whom she shared a great connection, and, of course, her three sisters. Featuring unique indigo illustrations, Deborah Noyes unveils how Louisa's natural spirit, loving family, and unconventional circumstances inspired the timeless masterpiece that is Little Women.

Author : Eve LaPlante
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451620675
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marmee & Louisa written by Eve LaPlante and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Free Press, 2012.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504046277
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack and Jill written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Little Women: An American classic of young best friends in a rustic New England town. In post–Civil War New England, thirteen-year-old Jack Minot and Janey Pecq are inseparable best friends who live next door to each other in the town of Harmony Village. The pair does everything together—so much so that Janey is nicknamed “Jill” to fit the old children’s rhyme. One winter day, the friends share a sled down a treacherous hill and both end up injured and bedridden. Unable to go out and have fun, Jack, Jill, and their circle of friends begin to learn about more than the fun and games of their youth and discover what it means to grow up—exploring their town, their hearts, and the big, wide world beyond for the first time. This charming, wistful coming-of-age tale, written twelve years after Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women, examines the strange, tempestuous changes of adolescence with homespun heart and worldly wisdom.