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Louisa May Alcott
Briefly outlines Alcott's life, examines her fiction for children and adults, and assesses her place in American literature
111 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 1983
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July 16, 2019
This short volume considers Alcott as a versatile author, worthy of serious literary attention. This work may have given new critical attention to Alcott's literary scope at the time it was written, but it unfortunately did not appreciate the full complexity of Alcott's oeuvre. MacDonald lends intriguing insights to Alcott's three novels on the March family. Yet, she also dismisses Alcott's choices as authorial blind spots or as compromises of her feminism, rather than truly seeing Alcott as a complex author who valued feminism as well as self-sacrifice for the benefit of others, along with many other seemingly conflicting aspects reflected in the choices she made for her plots and characters. Additionally, in chapter one there were some biographical inaccuracies.
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