PAL: Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide

Chapter 5: Late Nineteenth Century - Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

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| Top | Primary Works

Hospital Sketches, 1863; Moods, 1864 (rev. 1882); Little Women 1868-69; Little Men, 1871; Work: A Story of Experience, 1873; Transcendental Wild Oats, 1873; Eight Cousins,1874; Rose in Bloom, 1876; A Modern Mephistopheles, 1877; Jo's Boys, 1866; The Selected Letters, 1987; The Journals, 1989.

| Top | Selected Bibliography

Bedell, Jeanne F. "A Necessary Mask: The Sensation Fiction of Louisa May Alcott." Missouri Philological Association Publication 5 (1980): 8-14.

Bedell, Madelon. The Alcotts: Biography of a Family. 1980

Cheney, Ednah. ed. Louisa May Alcott, her life, letters, and journals. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889. PS1018 .A3

Dawson, Melanie. "A Woman's Power: Alcott's 'Behind a Mask' and the Usefulness of Dramatic Literacies in the Home." Atq : the american transcendental quarterly 11.1 (Mar 1997): 19-41.

Delamar, Gloria T. Louisa May Alcott and "Little Women": Biography, Critique, Publications, Poems, Songs, and Contemporary Relevance. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990.

Elbert, Sarah. A hunger for home: Louisa May Alcott's place in American culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1987. PS1018 .E4

Estes, Angela M. and Kathleen M. Lant. "The Feminist Redeemer: Louisa May Alcott's Creation of the Female Christ in Work." Christianity and Literature 40 (1991): 223-53.

Fetterley, Judith. "Impersonating 'Little Women': The Radicalism of alcott's Behind a Mask." Women's Studies 10 (1983): 1-14.

Halttunen, Karen. "The Domestic Drama of Louisa May Alcott." Feminist Studies 10 (1984): 232-54.

Harris, Susan K. 19th-Century American Women's Novels: interpretative Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.

Klimasmith, Betsy. "Slave, Master, Mistress, Slave: Genre and Interracial Desire in Louisa May Alcott's Fiction." American Transcendental Quarterly 11.2 (Jun 1997): 115-137.

| Top | MacDonald, Ruth K. Louisa May Alcott. Boston: Twayne, 1983. PS1018 .M28

Marsella, Joy A. The Promise of Destiny: Children and Women in the Short Stories of Louisa May Alcott. 1983.

Meigs, Cornelia. Louisa M. Alcott and the American family story. London: Bodley Head, 1970. PS1018 M38

Murphy, Ann B. "The Borders of Ethical, Erotic, and Artistic Possibilities in Little Women." Signs 15 (1990): 562-85.

Payne, Alma J. Louisa May Alcott, a reference guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980. Z8024.8 .P39

Sanderson, Rena. "A Modern Mephistopheles: Louisa May Alcott's Exorcism of Patriarchy." American Transcendental Quarterly 5 (1991): 41-55.

Saxton, Martha. Louisa May ; a modern biography of Louisa May Alcott. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. PS1018 .S2

Showalter, Elaine. Alternative Alcott. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1988.

Stern, Madeleine B. Louisa May Alcott. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1971. PS1018 .S75

Stern, Madeleine B. Behind a mask: the unknown thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. NY: Morrow, 1975. PS1017 .B4

Stern, Madeleine B. Critical essays on Louisa May Alcott. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984. PS1018 .C7

---, Joel Myerson, and Daniel Shealy. eds. The Double Life: Newly Discovered Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. Boston: Little Brown, 1988.

---. Freaks of Genius: Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. NY: Greenwood, 1991.

Strickland, Charles. Victorian Domesticity: Families in the Life and Art of Louisa May Alcott. 1985.

Yellin, Jean F. "From Success to Experience: Louisa May Alcott's Work." Massachusetts Review 21 (1980): 527-39.

MLA Style Citation of this Web Page

Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 5: Late Nineteenth Century - Louisa May Alcott." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. URL:http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/lalcott.html (provide page date or date of your login).