Little women : an annotated edition
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Little women : an annotated edition
AUTHOR:
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Shealy, Daniel
ISBN:
9780674059719
PUBLICATION_INFO:
Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xiii, 614 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Includes bibliographical references
ABSTRACT:
"In this richly annotated, illustrated edition, Daniel Shealy illuminates the novel's deep engagement with issues such as social equality, reform movements, the Civil War, friendship, love, loss, and of course the passage into adulthood. The editor provides running commentary on biographic contexts, social and historical contexts, literary allusions, and words likely to cause difficulty to modern readers. With Shealy as a guide, we appreciate anew the confusions and difficulties that beset the March sisters as they overcome their burdens and journey toward maturity and adulthood. This edition examines the novel's central question: How does one grow up well?
SUBJECT:
| March family (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction |
| Mothers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Young women -- Fiction |
| Sisters -- Fiction |
| New England -- Fiction |
| Domestic fiction |
| Autobiographical fiction |
| Bildungsromans |
BIBSUMMARY:
"In this richly annotated, illustrated edition, Daniel Shealy illuminates the novel's deep engagement with issues such as social equality, reform movements, the Civil War, friendship, love, loss, and of course the passage into adulthood. The editor provides running commentary on biographic contexts, social and historical contexts, literary allusions, and words likely to cause difficulty to modern readers. With Shealy as a guide, we appreciate anew the confusions and difficulties that beset the March sisters as they overcome their burdens and journey toward maturity and adulthood. This edition examines the novel's central question: How does one grow up well?