Louisa May Alcott Unmasked: Collected Thrillers - Hardcover
Uncovered by literary sleuths Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, the 29 known thrillers by one of America's most adored juvenile fiction writers are now available in a single volume.
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Elaine Showalter once noted that Alcott wrote stories with both her right hand and her left hand. Before the right hand was spinning the web of domestic charm in novels like Little Women, her left hand was recording the dark underside of domestic relations. Stern, an Alcott specialist who has edited several selections of Alcott thrillers (Behind the Mask Thrillers, 1975; From Jo March's Attic: Tales of Intrigue and Suspense, LJ 12/93), has here collected all the thrillers and sensational stories that Alcott published anonymously in weekly papers before her rise to fame with the publication of Little Women. The tales cast a spellbinding aura around characters thrust into webs spun by evil, deceit, and intrigue. Spurned lovers often exact revenge only to suffer from the poison of their own venomous actions. In "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," for example, the protagonist seeks the death of her former lover only to end with him, through a set of horrible circumstances. Passionate and powerful, the women in these tales anticipate later 19th-century women characters like Edna Pontelier (The Awakening). Essential.?Henry L. Carrigan Jr., Westerville P.L., Ohio
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Editor Stern searched doggedly throughout Alcott's papers to uncover the pseudonyms and publishers linked to her tales of passion, written "for monetary reward as well as psychological release." Although there have been previous publications of Alcott's short thrillers, including Behind the Mask and its sequel Plots and Counterplots, this is the first time, according to Stern, that all the stories have been brought together in one volume and in the order of their original appearance--a boon for scholars as well as fans. Now readers can judge whether Alcott's gothics, filled with heroic women, romantic themes, and stormy plots, are "rubbishy tales," as Alcott called them. Denise Perry Donavin
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- PublisherNortheastern Univ Pr
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 155553225X
- ISBN 13 9781555532253
- BindingHardcover
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