Little Women

A Norton Critical Edition

By: Louisa May Alcott, Gregory Eiselein, Anne K. Phillips

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Paperback | 6 February 2004 | Edition Number 1

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688 Pages

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Age
7 - 10

Grade
2 - 5

Dimensions(cm)
23.5 x 14.4 x 1.9

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"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a wealth of archival materials, among them previously unpublished correspondence with Thomas Niles and Alcott's own precursors to Little Women.

"Criticism" reprints twenty nineteenth-century reviews. Seven modern essays represent a variety of critical theories used to read and study the novel, including feminist (Catharine R. Stimpson, Elizabeth Keyser), new historicist (Richard H. Brodhead), psychoanalytic (Angela M. Estes and Kathleen Margaret Lant), and reader-response (Barbara Sicherman). A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

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List of Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Little Women, Part First	p. 5
Little Women, Part Second	p. 187
A Note on the Text	p. 381
Textual Variants	p. 386
Journals, Correspondence, and Biography	p. 411
Louisa May Alcott: Journals	p. 411
Bronson Alcott: Journals	p. 415
Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Niles, and Bronson Alcott: Correspondence on Little Women	p. 417
Recollections of My Childhood	p. 428
From Louisa May Alcott: A Biography	p. 434
Literary Contexts for Little Women	p. 447
From The Pilgrim's Progress	p. 447
From Wilhelm Meistar's Apprenticeship	p. 466
The Purple Jar	p. 466
Norna; or, The Witch's Curse	p. 471
The Masked Marriage	p. 496
The Sisters' Trial	p. 504
A Modern Cinderella: or, The Little Old Shoe	p. 515
Tilly's Christmas	p. 537
Merry's Monthly Chat with His Friends	p. 541
Nineteenth-Century Reviews	p. 547
From The Nation	p. 547
From the Albany Evening Journal	p. 547
From the Youth's Companion	p. 547
From the American Literary Gazette and Publisher's Circular	p. 548
From Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine	p. 548
From The Lady's Friend	p. 548
From The Ladies' Repository	p. 549
From Godey's Lady's Book	p. 549
From The Galaxy	p. 549
From The Spectator	p. 549
From The Commonwealth	p. 550
From The National Anti-Slavery Standard	p. 550
From The Nation	p. 551
From the Hartford Courant	p. 551
From Catholic World	p. 552
From Putnam's Magazine	p. 552
From the Galaxy	p. 552
From The Ladies' Repository	p. 552
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine	p. 553
From the London Graphic	p. 553
Modern Critical Views	p. 554
Subversive Miss Alcott	p. 554
"The House-Band": The Education of Men in Little Women	p. 556
Dismembering the Text: The Horror of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women	p. 564
Reading for Love: Canons, Paracanons, and Whistling Jo March	p. 584
"Portrait(s) of the Artist": Little Women	p. 600
Starting Out in the 1860s: Alcott, Authorship, and the Postbellum Literary Field	p. 624
Reading Little Women: The Many Lives of a Text	p. 632
Louisa May Alcott: A Chronology	p. 659
Selected Bibliography	p. 663
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