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Whispers in the Dark : The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott by Elizabeth Lennox Keyser (1995, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Tennessee Press
ISBN-100870499068
ISBN-139780870499067
eBay Product ID (ePID)1119988
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameWhispers in the Dark : the Fiction of Louisa May ALCOTT
LanguageEnglish
SubjectWomen Authors, Feminist, American / General
Publication Year1995
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorElizabeth Lennox Keyser
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN93-017587
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal813/.4
SynopsisFor decades readers accepted Louisa May Alcott's sentimental portrayal of the domestic world of women and children as evidence of her wholehearted support of the conservative ideologies of Victorian America. The women's movement of the 1970s sparked a reexamination of Alcott's writings, revealing a more radical vein but failing to establish the extent to which this impulse was realized. In an effort to clarify Alcott's intent, Elizabeth Keyser examines representative works: the sensation stories "A Whisper in the Dark," "A Marble Woman," and "Behind a Mask"; the children's classics Little Women, Little Men, and Jo's Boys; and the novels for adults Moods, Work, and Diana and Persis. Keyser discerns in all three genres self-portraits or metafictions that convey what it meant to be a Victorian woman writer. Alcott's wealth of allusion to other writers, such as Charlotte Bronte, Margaret Fuller, and, especially, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and of recurring motifs such as textiles, texts, and theatricals reveals her consistent subversion of conventional values for women. Keyser shows that beneath the mildly progressive feminism of her domestic and children's fiction lurks the more radical feminism of the Gothic thrillers. In some works Alcott symbolically conveys her vision of a feminist future in which men and women fulfill their androgynous potential and live in a harmonious state of equality. But in her most sustained critique of gender relations, the Little Women trilogy, Alcott betrays grave misgivings about the possibility of such a future.
LC Classification NumberPS1018.K48 1995
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