@article{931899,
      recid = {931899},
      author = {West, Kristina,},
      title = {Louisa May Alcott and the textual child : a critical  theory approach /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/931899},
}