Louisa May Alcott: From Blood & Thunder to Hearth & Home

ISBN-10: 1555533493
ISBN-13: 9781555533496
Series: Louisa May Alcott
Pages: 274
Language: English
Published: 1998
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Author: Madeleine B. Stern

Description

Gathered together for the first time in this volume, these influential articles by distinguished Alcott scholar Madeleine Stern illuminate Louisa May Alcott's development as an individual and a writer, revealign a surprisingly complex personality. The essays trace her growing professionalism, uncover her feminist and abolitionist convictions, and discuss the discoveries that unmasked her double literary life.