Louisa May Alcott: Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Stories & Other Writings

Louisa May Alcott: Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Stories & Other Writings This unique collection includes pioneering feminist novels, rare stories, restored drawings, and hard-to-find writings from the author of Little WomenAfter the success of her beloved masterpiece Little Women, Louisa May Alcott brought her genius for characterization and eye for detail to a series of revolutionary novels and stories that are remarkable in their forthright assertion of women's rights. This second volume of The Library of America's Alcott edition gathers these works for the first time, revealing a fascinating and inspiring dimension of a classic American writer.The first of a trio of novels written over a fruitful three-year period, Work: A Story of Experience has been called the adult Little Women. It follows the semi-autobiographical story of an orphan named Christie Devon, who, having turned twenty-one, announces 'a new Declaration of Independence' and leaves her uncle's house in order to pursue economic self-sufficiency and to find fulfillment in her profession. Against the backdrop of the Civil War years, Christie works as a servant, actress, governess, companion, seamstress, and army nurse-all jobs that Alcott knew from personal experience-exposing the often insidious ways in which the employments conventionally available to women constrain their self-determination. Alcott's most overtly feminist novel, Work breaks new ground in the literary representation of women, as its heroine pushes at the boundaries of nineteenth-century expectations and assumptions.Eight Cousins concerns the education of Rose Campbell, another orphan who, in her delicate nature and frail health, seems to embody many of the stereotypes of girlhood that shaped Alcott's world. But with the benefit of an unorthodox, progressive education and the good and bad examples of her many crisply drawn relations- especially her seven boy cousins-Rose regains her health and envisions a career both as a wife and mother and as a philanthropist. She insists that she will [...] Autor: Louisa May Alcott Wydawnictwo: The Library of America Rok wydania: 2014 Okładka: twarda Liczba stron: 900 Wymiary: 21 x 13.5 x 3.8 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9781598533064