Louisa May Alcott
The Contemporary Reviews
Part of American Critical Archives
- Editor: Beverly Lyon Clark, Wheaton College, Massachusetts
- Date Published: August 2006
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This collection of nineteenth-century reviews provides a wealth of information for scholars interested in Alcott (increasing the number of indexed reviews almost tenfold) but also insight into the ways in which reading audiences were constructed in the nineteenth-century United States. The reviews provide a window on to nineteenth-century attitudes toward popular fiction and toward women writers. The author of the novels and of sensational tales, of travel writing and of temperance tracts, Alcott was both highly popular and highly respected. Her works were reviewed not just in magazines for children, but also in the most prestigious literary journals of the day.
Read more- This volume increases the number of nineteenth-century reviews indexed for Alcott almost tenfold
- Includes the responses of nineteenth-century children as well as such notables as Henry James and Mark Twain
- Sheds light on many of the most important nineteenth-century debates around literature
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- Date Published: August 2006
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511189708
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Series editor's preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Flower Fables (1855: reprinted, with additions, as The Frost King, vol. 2 of Lulu's Library, 1887)
2. Hospital Sketches (1863: reprinted in Hospital Sketches and Camp and Fireside Stories, 1869)
3. On Picket Duty and Other Tales (1864)
4. Moods (1865: revised edition, 1882)
5. Morning Glories, and Other Stories (1868, 1871)
6. Kitty's Class-Day, Aunt Kipp, Psyche's Art (1868: reprinted together in Louisa May Alcott's Proverb Stories, 1868)
7. Little Women: or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (Part 1, 1868
Part 2, 1869)
8. An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870)
9. Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)
10. My Boys, vol. 1 of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (London, 1871, 1872)
11. Shawl-Straps, vol. 2 of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1872)
12. Work: A Story of Experience (1873)
13. Cupid and Chow-Chow, vol. 3 of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1874)
14. Eight Cousins: or, The Ant-Hill (1875)
15. Silver Pitchers: Independence, A Centennial Love Story (1876)
16. Rose in Bloom
A Sequel to ' Eight Cousins' (1876)
17. A Modern Mephistopheles (1877: reprinted with A Whisper in the Dark, 1889)
18. My Girls, vol. 4 of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1878)
19. Under the Lilacs (1878)
20. Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, vol. 5. of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1879)
21. Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880)
22. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, vol. 6 of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (1882)
23. Spinning- Wheel Stories (1884)
24. A Christmas Dream, vol. 1 of Lulu's Library (1886)
25. Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to 'Little Men' (1886)
26. A Garland for Girls (1888)
27. Recollections, vol. 3 of Lulu's Library (1889)
28. Comic Tragedies, Written by 'Jo' and 'Meg' and Acted by the 'Little Women' (1893)
Index.
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