Little Women : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism

Type

Book

Authors

Louisa May Alcott

Phillips ( Anne )

ISBN 10

0393976149

ISBN 13

9780393976144

Tags

Children's Books, Classics, Criticism & Theory, Contemporary, Literary, Literature

Description

This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868–69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations. “Backgrounds and Contexts” includes a wealth of archival materials, among them previously unpublished correspondence with Thomas Niles and Alcott’s own precursors to Little Women.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. - from Amzon

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