Louisa May Alcott and the Textual Child

A Critical Theory Approach

Kristina West (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

IX, 226 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-39024-2 (ISBN)

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This book examines constructions of childhood in the works of Louisa May Alcott. While Little Women continues to gain popular and critical attention, Alcott's wider works for children have largely been consigned to history. This book therefore investigates Alcott's lesser-known children's texts to reconsider critical assumptions about childhood in her works and in literature more widely. Kristina West investigates the trend towards reading Alcott's life into her works; readings of gender and sexuality, race, disability, and class; the sentimental domestic; portrayals of Transcendentalism and American education; and adaptations of these works. Analyzing Alcott as a writer for twenty-first-century children, West considers Alcott's place in the children's canon and how new media and fan fiction impact readings of her works today.

Kristina West completed her BA, MA(Res) in Children's Literature, and PhD on constructions of childhood in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson at the University of Reading, UK, and is an affiliated member of the Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture and Media at the University of Reading. Her research focuses on American literature, children's literature, and critical theory. She is currently working on a book on childhood and the Salem witch trials.

Chapter 1: Reading Alcott's Textual Childhood.- Chapter 2: 'We really lived most of it': The Trouble with Autobiography.- Chapter 3: Subverting the Sentimental Domestic.- Chapter 4: Queering the Child.- Chapter 5: Race, Disability, and Class: Alcott's Peripheral Children.- Chapter 6: A Transcendental Childhood.- Chapter 7: 'The model children': Alcott's Theories of Education.- Chapter 8: Retelling Alcott in the 21st Century.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.05.2020
Reihe/Serie	Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
Zusatzinfo	IX, 226 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	437 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Autobiography • 'Blood and thunder' • Childhood • domesticity • Education • Gender • Little Women • Louisa May Alcott • Transcendentalism
ISBN-10	3-030-39024-1 / 3030390241
ISBN-13	978-3-030-39024-2 / 9783030390242
Zustand	Neuware