What is it about?
In this article, I review Beverly Lyon Clark's study of Louise May Alcott's classic novel Little Women (a study tracing the novel's uneven afterlife with readers, critics, and culture workers in the 19th and 20th centuries).
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Why is it important?
This review draws attention to Clark's leading role in American Studies, Children's Literature Studies, and Cultural Studies, a role in turn cementing Alcott's place in Anglo-American history and culture.
Perspectives
As I say in the review proper, Clark's study is a valuable work with a broad appeal useful for scholars working the fields of American studies, transatlantic studies, cultural studies, history, women's and gender studies, and children's literature. This review draws attention to the ways in which we can read The Afterlife of Little Women - for its insights into Alcott and her work, and for its insights into Anglo-American popular culture and history.
Dr. David C Aitchison
North Central College
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This page is a summary of: The Afterlife of “Little Women” BeverlyLyon Clark. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014., Journal of American Culture, September 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jacc.12600.
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