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Coming of Age In Little Women -- University student paper on the growth process of all four girls in Little Women. From Muse to Ceres: The Influence of Margaret Fuller's Philosophy on Louisa May Alcott's Diana and Persis -- Very brief article from 1995 Margaret Fuller Society Newsletter. The Last Accepted Prejudice: Fat Children in Children's Series Fiction -- Discussion of prejudice against overweight children in series fiction. Covers George Cole from Little Men. From a 1998 issue of Studies in Popular Culture.University-level. The Lone Hero -- Discussion of the Romantic hero as loner. Covers A Modern Cinderella and Transcendental Wild Oats. "Basically, it seems that the hero has cast himself as an outsider. He refuses to accept the rules of society. He denies all that society has to offer while he searches for an ideal. It is by his own choice that the hero alienates himself from the rest of the world." Louisa May Alcott and the Roles of a Lifetime -- Kim Wells' Masters thesis. Smothered Fire -- 1997 Salon article discussing Alcott as author and struggling human. Teaching In a Different Sense: Alcott's Marmee -- Critical and extensive university-level essay examining Marmee. From a 1993 issue of Philosophy of Education. "But as a domestic curriculum in itself, the novel also dramatizes Marmee’s childrearing practice with Jo and her sisters, sixteen-year-old Meg, thirteen-year-old Beth, and twelve-year-old Amy — perhaps intending that its young readers or their mothers should learn that practice’s meaning and value, if not also a few of its characteristic methods and resources. " There's also a very interesting response to this essay called Enriching Our Conception of Teaching. Untitled -- A student paper(?) comparing "A Pair of Eyes" and "Pauline's Passion and Punishment." The Whipping Boy of Love: Atonement and Aggression in Alcott's Fiction -- University-level criticism comparing Little Women and Little Men. "When read in relation to each other, these novels suggest that it is aggression — toward self and others — that gives love meaning and makes love possible." Defining a New Model for Managing Conflict -- An activity based around Little Women. The following articles are not linked to, but are listed here for research assistance. Please consult your friendly local librarian: Chapman, Mary. "Gender and Influence in Louisa May Alcott's A Modern Mephistopheles." LEGACY: A Journal of American Women Writers 13.1 (1996): 19-37. Clark, Beverly Lyon. "Domesticating the School Story, Regendering a Genre: Alcott's Little Men." New Literary History: A Journal of Theory & Interpretation (Spring 1995), 26(2):329-330, 341n21. Dawson, Melanie. "A Woman's Power: Alcott's 'Behind a Mask' and the Usefulness of Dramatic Literacies in the Home." Atq : the american transcendental quarterly 11.1 (Mar 1997): 19-41. Ruth Dyckfehderau, University of Alberta, Edmonton "Moral Pap and Male Mothers: The Political Subtexts of Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins or, The Aunt Hill." LEGACY: A Journal of American Women Writers 16.2 (1999) (154-167) Fetterley, Judith. "Impersonating 'Little Women': The Radicalism of Alcott's Behind a Mask." Women's Studies 10 (1983): 1-14. Schultz, Jane E. "Embattled Care: Narrative Authority in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches." LEGACY: A Journal of American Women Writers 9.2 (1992): 104-18. Winn, Harbour. "Echoes of Literary Sisterhood: Louisa May Alcott and Kate Chopin." Studies in American Fiction 20 (1992): 205-208.
The following sites provide other listings of criticism: http://www.tetranet.net/users/stolbert/alcott/lma_bibl.html http://www.unm.edu/~lhendr/txtfiles/1a-z.txt (search page for the word Alcott) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/lalcott.html |
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