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Little Women
By Louisa M. Alcott

Little Women

By (author) Louisa M. Alcott

Edited by Gregory Eiselein

Anne K. Phillips

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"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a wealth of archival materials, among them previously unpublished correspondence with Thomas Niles and Alcott's own precursors to Little Women. "Criticism" reprints twenty nineteenth-century reviews. Seven modern essays represent a variety of critical theories used to read and study the novel, including feminist (Catharine R. Stimpson, Elizabeth Keyser), new historicist (Richard H. Brodhead), psychoanalytic (Angela M. Estes and Kathleen Margaret Lant), and reader-response (Barbara Sicherman). A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

ISBN: 9780393976144
Classification: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) , Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers , Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Format: Paperback (234mm x 175mm x 22mm)
Pages: 352
Publish Date: 6-Feb-2004
Country of Publication: United States

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