Louisa May Alcott: The Contemporary Reviews

Louisa May Alcott was very popular and respected as the author of novels, sensational tales, travel writing and temperance tracts. In addition to providing a wealth of new information for scholars interested in the writer, this considerable collection of nineteenth-century reviews also reveals more about the ways in which reading audiences were constructed in the nineteenth-century U.S. The reviews provide a window into nineteenth-century attitudes toward popular fiction and women writers as well.

Author(s): Beverly Lyon Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-04-14
Categories: Literary Criticism