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Louisa May Alcott and the Textual Child

A Critical Theory Approach

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvKristina West

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This book examines constructions of childhood in the works of Louisa May Alcott. 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-04-29
Mått148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt423 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Approaches to Children's Literature
Antal sidor226
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030390242

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Kristina West completed her PhD on constructions of childhood in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and is an affiliated member of the Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media at the University of Reading. Her research focuses on American literature, children’s literature, and critical theory. She will soon publish her next book, Reading the Salem Witch Child.

Chapter 1: Reading Alcott’s Textual Childhood.- Chapter 2: ‘We really lived most of it’: The Trouble with Autobiography.- Chapter 3: Subverting the Sentimental Domestic.- Chapter 4: Queering the Child.- Chapter 5: Race, Disability, and Class: Alcott’s Peripheral Children.- Chapter 6: A Transcendental Childhood.- Chapter 7: ‘The model children’: Alcott’s Theories of Education.- Chapter 8: Retelling Alcott in the 21st Century.