Books written by Beverly Lyon Clark
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The Afterlife of "Little Women"
See, e.g., Henry Jenkins, Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture (New York: New York Univ. Press, 2006), 135 (ebrary). Lauren Rizzuto has discussed the interpretive communities of fanfiction based on Little Women in ...
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Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children's Literature in America
cludes such essays as Christine A. Jenkins , “ Women of ALA Youth Services and Professional Jurisdiction : Of Nightingales , Newberies , Realism and the Right Books , 1937-1945 , " 813-40 , and Kay E. Vandergrift , " Female Advocacy and ...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism
Presents a critical edition of Mark Twain's classic novel, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," and includes textual and explanatory notes, background information, profile of the author, and seven critical essays.
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Regendering the School Story: Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys
More important still is interaction with the widowed Mrs. Lee and her son Robert . Mrs. Lee serves as a touchstone , underscoring , early on , how much Clifton needs improvement when he fails to contribute to her relief ( it's at her ...
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Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender in Children's Literature and Culture
Girls, Boys, Books, Toys asks questions about how the gender symbolism of children's culture is constructed and resisted. What happens when women rewrite (or illustrate) nursery rhymes, adventure stories, and fairy tales told by men?
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Little Women and the Feminist Imagination: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays
MEN AND LITTLE WOMEN NOTES OF A RESISTING ( MALE ) READER JAN SUSINA Perhaps in a way no male can truly empathize with , most female readers of Little Women ... -Gloria T. Delamar , Louisa May Alcott and “ Little Women ” In 1983 Madelon ...
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Regendering the School Story: Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys
sake of her country, of humanity, of principle. Hale may implicitly invoke a family context for “we girls” at the beginning when he calls their teacher Aunt Mary, but he is at pains to divest Rachel of any such actual encumbrances.19 ...
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LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays
1910-1919 "Books for Children. ... Revised and reprinted as "Louisa May Alcott" in Portraits of American Women, 167-94. ... In The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century, 17-61, esp. 17-27.
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Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children's Literature in America
Honor Book for the 2005 Book Award given by the Children's Literature AssociationThe popularity of the Harry Potter books among adults and the critical acclaim these young adult fantasies have...
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LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays
... Reviews.” In The Rise of Children's Book Reviewing in America, 1865—1 881, 277—424. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1968. Eichelberger, Clayton L., comp. A Guide to Critical Reviews of United States Fiction, 1870—1910, vol. 1, 15—16, vol. 2, 13 ...
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The Afterlife of "Little Women"
Written in an accessible narrative style, The Afterlife of Little Women speaks to scholars, librarians, and devoted Alcott fans.
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Regendering the School Story: Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys
... the school story. It is important first, though, to provide some background on the genre and its history. The key distinguishing feature of the school story is that it be a story set at school, generally at the secondary level (in ...