About a Girl: Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women at 150th Anniversary – Analysing Its Cultural and Literary Impact
Shealy, D. (Ed.). (2022). Little Women at 150. University Press of Mississippi.
Abstract
The review article outlines the key issues and themes of the anthology Little Women at 150, edited by Daniel Shealy (2022), and describes its structure and contributions. It highlights the extensive introduction, which provides historical context and insights into Louisa May Alcott’s approach to Little Women (1868–1869). The paper also discusses the novel’s relevance in modern times, its cultural impact over the past 150 years, and the various scholarly perspectives presented in this monograph.
Keywords
19th-century literature; American literature; girls' novel; Little Women; Louisa May Alcott; women's writing
Supporting Agencies
The article was prepared as part of the Polish National Science Centre grant Opus 21 – project no. 2021/41/B/HS2/00876: Pół wieku polskiej literatury dziecięcej. Twórczość dla dzieci w kręgu władzy i produkcji kulturowej: odbiorca literatury – literatura jako odbiorca [Half a Century of Children’s Literature in Poland. Texts for a Young Audience in the Context of Cultural Production and Power: The Recipient of Literature – Literature as a Recipient].
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Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu Poland
Agnieszka Kocznur – MA, prepares a doctoral dissertation at the Doctoral School of Languages and Literatures at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) on contemporary Polish girls’ novel and young adult fiction; member of the Children’s Literature and Culture Research Team at AMU. Contact: agnkoc@amu.edu.pl.
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