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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 828–830.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Cecilia Tichi 828 American Literature
Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women’s Writing. By
Sari Edelstein. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2014. xi, 240 pp. Cloth,
$84.95; paper, $20.50; e-book, $29.50.
Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith...
View articletitled, Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women's Writing Sacramental Shopping: <span class="search-highlight">Louisa</span> <span class="search-highlight">May</span> <span class="search-highlight">Alcott</span>, Edith Wharton, and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and US Modernism
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for article titled, Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women's Writing Sacramental Shopping: <span class="search-highlight">Louisa</span> <span class="search-highlight">May</span> <span class="search-highlight">Alcott</span>, Edith Wharton, and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and US Modernism
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 151–152.
Published: 01 March 2002
... that
influenced domestic detective fiction: Poe’s tales of ratiocination, the sen-
sational story-papers, popular nonfiction crime and trial narratives, the do-
mestic novel, and, in her words, ‘‘the social-critical use of the gothic mode
as exemplified in the works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Louisa</span> <span class="search-highlight">May</span> <span class="search-highlight">Alcott</span> and Charlotte Brontë: Transatlantic Translations
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Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 517–545.
Published: 01 September 2015
... as a primary identity category between 1820 and 1900, this essay argues that age offers an especially pertinent lens for nineteenth-century literary scholars. Louisa May Alcott's 1873 novel Work makes the political and social significance of age its central subject. Work acknowledges age as a newly meaningful...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Louisa</span> <span class="search-highlight">May</span> <span class="search-highlight">Alcott's</span> Age
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 721–749.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Wendell Holmes’s The Guardian Angel (1867), Louisa May Alcott’s Hospital Sketches (1863), and Walt Whitman’s war entries in Specimen Days (from 1863) represent mental breakdown but propose a radically different therapy: the mind may be healed by acquiescing to the body’s physiological functions...
FIGURES
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 June 2024
... before turning to hospital accounts by Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman that adopt the trope of portraiture in order to make soldiers’ suffering legible to a wider audience. This essay argues that these ekphrastic accounts make visible not only soldiers’ suffering but also the act of observing...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 869–892.
Published: 01 December 2015
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Edelstein, Sari. “Louisa May Alcott’s Age,” 517–45.
Elliott, Michael A. “Strangely Interested: The Work of Historical Fantasy,”
137–57.
Emre, Merve. “Ironic Institutions: Counterculture Fictions and the American
Express Company,” 107–36.
Ernest, John. Review: To Live an Antislavery Life...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 31–60.
Published: 01 March 2003
... have
books and publishers and a fortune of my own.—Louisa
May Alcott, Journals, 1859
Isharedthegeneralaweof[theAtlanticand, having...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 183–184.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... By Christy
Rishoi. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2003. xi, 202 pp. Cloth, $62.50;
paper, $20.95.
Born too late to share the dubious distinction of being one of Hawthorne’s
mob of women scribblers, Louisa May Alcott is nevertheless the most durable
popular representative of American women’s...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 415–416.
Published: 01 June 2001
... primary or secondary works that would have
proveduseful,suchasC.CarrollHollis’sLanguage and Style in ‘‘Leaves of
Grass’’ (1983) in discussing the speech-act dimension of Whitman’s poetry or
Louisa May...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 416–417.
Published: 01 June 2001
... of
Grass’’ (1983) in discussing the speech-act dimension of Whitman’s poetry or
Louisa May Alcott’s novel Work (1873) and its chapter on Christie Devon’s
experience as an actress. Nevertheless, Ackerman’s book is essential reading...
Journal Article
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 874.
Published: 01 December 2000
... canonical writers like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May
Alcott, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Young’s reinvestigation of this
female canon is premised in large part on the conflation of public and private...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 305–331.
Published: 01 June 2014
... are obscured by the reproduction of an idea of the generic, iterable, and ultimately “killable” girl. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 References Alcott Louisa May . ( 1868-69 ) 2004 . Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy . Edited by Phillips Anne K. Eiselein Gregory . New...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 184–186.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., $21.95.
From Girl to Woman: American Women’s Coming-of-Age Narratives. By Christy
Rishoi. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2003. xi, 202 pp. Cloth, $62.50;
paper, $20.95.
Born too late to share the dubious distinction of being one of Hawthorne’s
mob of women scribblers, Louisa May Alcott...
View articletitled, Making Girls into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity; From Girl to Woman: American Women's Coming-of-Age Narratives
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 873–874.
Published: 01 December 2000
... feminist recoveries of American women’s roles in both the war and its
literary representation, Young recovers the significance of lesser-known fig-
ures and rereads canonical writers like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May...
Journal Article
American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 638–640.
Published: 01 September 2016
... identifications and political zeal in the name of right feeling can lead to terrible violence. In The Altar at Home , Stokes presents major writers of the nineteenth-century United States, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, and Susan B. Warner, as she asks how religion and identity function...
View articletitled, The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 819–821.
Published: 01 December 2013
... American Literature
his tension. The war also made a poet of Melville, for whom “the Battle of
Shiloh had rendered transcendental philosophy instantly and irrevocably
obsolete” (70). Meanwhile, Louisa May Alcott’s work brought her “literary
success” at the expense of her health (142...
View articletitled, From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature the Literatures of the Us-Mexican War: Narrative, Time, and Identity
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 33–63.
Published: 01 March 2005
... women’s incorporation.
Louisa May Alcott narrates this kind of discursive eccentricity in
her novel Work: A Story of Experience (1873) when she uses the trope of
genius to raise the experiences of her heroine, Christie, to the politi-
cal plane. Christie’s gift for spontaneous political speech...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 655–659.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... Spengler begins by defining these texts as a genre, and then focuses on spinoff novels in the United States from the last twenty years, including such pairings as Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund (1999) and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851); March by Geraldine Brooks (2005) and Louisa May Alcott’s...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 630–633.
Published: 01 September 2017
...—the memoirists developed a conversational tone. Thus establishing a connection with readers, they could begin the work of reshaping cultural prescriptions regarding the questions of women’s rights and, often, race relations and a larger “democratic imperative” (161). If Louisa May Alcott’s nurse, Tribulation...
View articletitled, Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863–1870
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for article titled, Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863–1870
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 681–708.
Published: 01 December 2015
... . 2005 . ”Somewhat on the Community-System”: Fourierism in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne . New York : Routledge . Matteson John . 2008 . Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father . New York : Norton . McKinley Blaine . 1990 . “Free Love and Domesticity...
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