The Feminist Alcott: Stories of a Woman's Power - Softcover

Alcott, Louisa May

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555532667 ISBN 13: 9781555532666

Publisher: Northeastern University Press, 1996

Synopsis

The beloved juvenile writer's anonymous and pseudonymous sensation stories were first discovered decades ago by the literary sleuthing of Madeleine Stern and Leona Rostenberg. Now Stern, a recognized Alcott scholar, has selected four thrillers that illuminate Alcott's feminist convictions. These engaging potboilers feature the power struggle between the sexes and colorful, passionate heroines who, ranging from thwarted and abused victims to triumphant conquerors, will beguile a new audience of modern readers.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Gathering four of Alcott's early sensation stories ("Pauline's Passion and Punishment," "V.V.," "Behind a Mask," and "Taming a Tatar") from a previous Alcott collection (Louisa May Alcott Unmasked: Collected Thrillers, LJ 4/15/95), rare book collector and Alcott scholar Stern illustrates the ways in which women's struggle for sexual power form the thread that knits together Alcott's fiction. Each of the stories records the degree to which Alcott's female protagonists succeed or fail to break away from male domination to fashion their own self-identities. In "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," for example, Pauline succeeds in defeating her male opponent only to become trapped in a terrifying new relationship with him. Since the stories in this volume are readily available in other collections, only libraries wanting to own every edition of Alcott's stories will want to purchase it.?Henry L. Carrigan Jr., Westerville P.L., Ohio
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About this edition

• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1555532667
• ISBN 13: 9781555532666
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Stern Madeline B.