Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868)

Maruo-Schröder, Nicole

doi:10.1515/9783110481327

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868)

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage	399	en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage	417	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Maruo-Schröder, Nicole
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-10T14:39:05Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-10T14:39:05Z
dc.date.issued	2018	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Little Women is one of the most popular American children’s books of all times, and only rather recently have scholars (re)discovered the ways in which it can also speak to adult audiences. Tracing the development of the March sisters from “little women” to adults, the novel touches upon various aspects central for the self-conception of the American nation in the second half of the nineteenth century, ranging from an increasing influence of the capitalist marketplace to the changes regarding women’s roles. This essay foregrounds the main character Jo, focusing not just on Alcott’s criticism of the gendered restrictions that women had to face but also on their implications for female writers. Moreover, this essay briefly discusses the novel’s portrayal of the growing importance of consumption, ranging from its significance for the characters’ identity to the commodification of literature.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/9783110481327
dc.identifier.isbn	9783110481327
dc.identifier.uri	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2405
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publishedIn	Berlin	en_US
dc.publisher	De Gruyter	en_US
dc.relation.editor	Gerhardt, Christine
dc.relation.ispartof	Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Handbooks of English and American Studies; 7
dc.rights	L::CC BY-NC-ND 4.0	en_US
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:810	en_US
dc.subject.field	americanstudies	en_US
dc.subject.field	literarystudies	en_US
dc.title	Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868)	en_US
dc.type	anthologyArticle	en_US
dc.type.version	publishedVersion	en_US
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