Little Women and The Feminist Imagination: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays

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by  Janice M. Alberghene and Beverly Lyon Clark

LITTLE WOMEN AND
THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND CULTURE
VOLUME 6
GARLAND REFERENCE LIBRARY OF THE HUMANITIES
VOLUME 1974
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND CULTURE
JACK ZIPES, Series Editor
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE RETELLING STORIES,
COMES OF AGE FRAMING CULTURE
Toward a New Aesthetic Traditional Story
by Maria Nikolajeva and Metanarratives
in Children's Literature
REDISCOVERIES IN by John Stephens and
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Robyn McCallum
by Suzanne Rahn
THE CASE OF PETER RABBIT
REGEN DERING THE Changing Conditions
SCHOOL STORY of Literature for Children
Sassy Sissies and
by Margaret Mackey
Tattling Tomboys
by Beverly Lyon Clark LITTLE WOMEN AND
THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION
WHITE SUPREMACY IN Criticism, Controversy,
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Personal Essays
Characterizations of African
edited by Janice M. Alberghene
Americans, I830-I900 and Beverly Lyon Clark
by Donnarae MacCann
LITTLE WOMEN AND
THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION
CRITICISM, CONTROVERSY,
PERSONAL ESSAYS
EDITED BY
JANICE M. ALBERGHENE
BEVERLY LYON CLARK
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First published 1999 by Garland Publishing, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Little women and the feminist imagination : criticism, controversy, personal
essays / edited by Janice M. Alberghene amd Beverly Lyon Clark.
p. cm. - (Children's literature and culture ; vol. 6. Garland ref-
erence library of the humanities; vol. 1974.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
1. Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Little women. 2. Alcott, Louisa
May, 1832-1888-Political and social views. 3. Feminism and, literature
New England-History-19th century. 4. Children's stories, American
History and criticism. 5. Domestic fiction, American-History and criti
cism. 6. Young women in literature. I. Alberghene, Janice M. II. Clark,
Beverly Lyon. III. Series: Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol.
1974. IV. Series: Garland reference library of the humanities. Children's
literature and culture ; v. 6.
PSI017.L53L68 1999
813'A-DC21 98-26670
CIP
ISBN 13: 978-0-815-32049-4 (hbk)
FOR DAVID AND HARPER, AND IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER
-J.A.
FOR ROGER, ADAM, AND WENDY
-B.C.
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CONTENTS
Xl GENERAL EDITOR'S FOREWORD
xiii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Xv INTRODUCTION
Janice M. Alberghene and Beverly Lyon Clark
3 CARTOON-LITTLE WOMEN: MEG, AMY, BETH, Jo AND
MARMEE FACE LIFE IN THE' 80S
Victoria Roberts
7 WAITING TOGETHER: ALCOTT ON MATRIARCHY
Nina Auerbach
27 LITTLE WOMEN: ALCOTT'S CIVIL WAR
Judith Fetterley
43 INTRODUCTION TO LITTLE WOMEN
Ann Douglas
63 READING FOR LOVE: CANONS, PARACANONS,
AND WHISTLING Jo MARCH
Catharine R. Stimpson
83 "THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS IN ALL THE WORLD"?
FAMILIES IN LITTLE WOMEN
Elizabeth Lennox Keyser
97 PORTRAYING LITTLE WOMEN THROUGH THE AGES
Anne Hollander
103 GETTING COZY WITH A CLASSIC: VISUALIZING
LITTLE WOMEN (1868-1995)
Susan R. Gannon
139 "QUEER PERFORMANCES": LESBIAN POLITICS
IN LITTLE WOMEN
Roberta Seelinger Trites
161 MEN AND LITTLE WOMEN: NOTES OF A RESISTING
(MALE) READER
Jan Susina
173 IN Jo's GARRET: LITTLE WOMEN AND THE SPACE
OF IMAGINATION
Sue Standing
185 "A POWER IN THE HOUSE": LITTLE WOMEN AND
THE ARCHITECTURE OF INDIVIDUAL EXPRESSION
David H. Watters
213 THE PROPHETS AND THE MARTYRS: PILGRIMS AND
MISSIONARIES IN LITTLE WOMEN AND JACK AND JILL
Anne K. Phillips
237 A GREATER HAPPINESS: SEARCHING FOR FEMINIST
UTOPIA IN LITTLE WOMEN
Kathryn Manson Tomasek
261 TRANSATLANTIC TRANSLATIONS: COMMUNITIES
OF EDUCATION IN ALCOTT AND BRONTE
Christine Doyle
285 LEARNING FROM MARMEE'S TEACHING:
ALCOTT'S RESPONSE TO GIRLS' MISEDUCATION
Susan Laird
Vlll CON TEN T S
323 SONGS TO AGING CHILDREN: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S
MARCH TRILOGY
Michelle A. Masse
347 AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND THE BOUNDARIES
OF INTERPRETATION: ON READING LITTLE WOMEN
AND THE LIVING Is EASY
Janice M. Alberghene
377 ALCOTT IN JAPAN: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Aiko Moro-oka
381 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALCOTT BIOGRAPHY
AND CRITICISM
Beverly Lyon Clark and Linnea Hendrickson
421 CONTRIBUTORS
425 INDEX