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• catalog abstract "For decades readers accepted Louisa May Alcott's sentimental portrayal of the domestic world of women and children as evidence of her wholehearted support of the conservative ideologies of Victorian America. The women's movement of the 1970s sparked a reexamination of Alcott's writings, revealing a more radical vein but failing to establish the extent to which this impulse was realized. In an effort to clarify Alcott's intent, Elizabeth Keyser examines representative works: the sensation stories "A Whisper in the Dark," "A Marble Woman," and "Behind a Mask"; the children's classics Little Women, Little Men, and Jo's Boys; and the novels for adults Moods, Work, and Diana and Persis. Keyser discerns in all three genres self-portraits or metafictions that convey what it meant to be a Victorian woman writer. Alcott's wealth of allusion to other writers, such as Charlotte Bronte, Margaret Fuller, and, especially, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and of recurring motifs such as textiles, texts, and theatricals reveals her consistent subversion of conventional values for women. Keyser shows that beneath the mildly progressive feminism of her domestic and children's fiction lurks the more radical feminism of the Gothic thrillers. In some works Alcott symbolically conveys her vision of a feminist future in which men and women fulfill their androgynous potential and live in a harmonious state of equality. But in her most sustained critique of gender relations, the Little Women trilogy, Alcott betrays grave misgivings about the possibility of such a future.".
• catalog contributor b4969808.
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description "Alcott's wealth of allusion to other writers, such as Charlotte Bronte, Margaret Fuller, and, especially, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and of recurring motifs such as textiles, texts, and theatricals reveals her consistent subversion of conventional values for women.".
• catalog description "For decades readers accepted Louisa May Alcott's sentimental portrayal of the domestic world of women and children as evidence of her wholehearted support of the conservative ideologies of Victorian America. The women's movement of the 1970s sparked a reexamination of Alcott's writings, revealing a more radical vein but failing to establish the extent to which this impulse was realized.".
• catalog description "In an effort to clarify Alcott's intent, Elizabeth Keyser examines representative works: the sensation stories "A Whisper in the Dark," "A Marble Woman," and "Behind a Mask"; the children's classics Little Women, Little Men, and Jo's Boys; and the novels for adults Moods, Work, and Diana and Persis. Keyser discerns in all three genres self-portraits or metafictions that convey what it meant to be a Victorian woman writer.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-221) and index.".
• catalog description "Keyser shows that beneath the mildly progressive feminism of her domestic and children's fiction lurks the more radical feminism of the Gothic thrillers. In some works Alcott symbolically conveys her vision of a feminist future in which men and women fulfill their androgynous potential and live in a harmonious state of equality. But in her most sustained critique of gender relations, the Little Women trilogy, Alcott betrays grave misgivings about the possibility of such a future.".
• catalog description "pt. I. Toward Little Women. 1. "The Wrongs of Woman": "A Whisper in the Dark" 2. "Woman in the Nineteenth Century": Moods. 3. "The Seduction of Daughters" or "The Sins of the Fathers": A Marble Woman or The Mysterious Model. 4. "The Second Sex": Behind a Mask or A Woman's Power. 5. "Portrait(s) of the Artist": Little Women -- pt. II. Beyond Little Women. 6. "The Anxiety of Influence": Little Men. 7. "The Quest for Identity ": Work: A Story of Experience. 8. "An Identity 'Other' Than Their Own": A Modern Mephistopheles. 9. "Paradoxes of the Woman Artist": Diana and Persis. 10. A Voice of One's Own: Jo's Boys.".
• catalog extent "xix, 228 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Whispers in the dark.".
• catalog identifier "0870498096 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Whispers in the dark.".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press,".
• catalog relation "Whispers in the dark.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "813/.4 20".
• catalog subject "Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "Children Books and reading United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Children's stories, American History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Feminism and literature United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "PS1018 .K48 1993".
• catalog subject "PS1018 .K48 1994".
• catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 19th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Toward Little Women. 1. "The Wrongs of Woman": "A Whisper in the Dark" 2. "Woman in the Nineteenth Century": Moods. 3. "The Seduction of Daughters" or "The Sins of the Fathers": A Marble Woman or The Mysterious Model. 4. "The Second Sex": Behind a Mask or A Woman's Power. 5. "Portrait(s) of the Artist": Little Women -- pt. II. Beyond Little Women. 6. "The Anxiety of Influence": Little Men. 7. "The Quest for Identity ": Work: A Story of Experience. 8. "An Identity 'Other' Than Their Own": A Modern Mephistopheles. 9. "Paradoxes of the Woman Artist": Diana and Persis. 10. A Voice of One's Own: Jo's Boys.".
• catalog title "Whispers in the dark : the fiction of Louisa May Alcott / Elizabeth Lennox Keyser.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".