Louisa May Alcott: The Contemporary Reviews

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521155398
• ISBN13: 9780521155397
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"