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Louisa May Alcott on race, sex, and slavery

Title

Louisa May Alcott on race, sex, and slavery / edited with an introduction by Sarah Elbert.

Author

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

Publication

Boston : Northeastern University Press, ©1997.
©1997

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Additional Authors

Elbert, Sarah

Description

lx, 101 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Alcott's short stories are preceded by an extensive introduction. As Elizabeth Young wrote, "Women's Civil War fiction symbolically reimagines the relation between women and nationhood or, more specifically between the disorderly body of the woman author and the diseased body politic of the country at war. The nexus of disrupted and disruptive bodies emerges most clearly in the work of Louisa May Alcott ... Interpreted in the context of the Civil War, Alcott's work offers important insights into nineteenth-century constructions of femininity, masculinity, authorship, war, and nationhood."--Quoted on p. xii.

Subjects

Genre/Form

novels.
Novels
Fiction
Fiction.
Novels.
Romans.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

M.L. -- Nelly's hospital -- Colored soldiers' letters -- An hour -- My contraband -- Elisha Harris, chapter 10 of The United States Sanitary Commission Report.

ISBN

1555533086
9781555533083
1555533078
9781555533076

LCCN

96048085

OCLC

ocm35762795
35762795
SCSB-8957215

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library