Louisa May Alcott on race, sex, and slavery /

Louisa May Alcott on race, sex, and slavery / edited with an introduction by Sarah Elbert.

Alcott's short stories are preceded by an extensive introduction. As Elizabeth Young wrote, "Women's Civil War fiction symbolically reimagines the relation between women and nationhood or, more specifically between the disorderly body of the woman author and the diseased body politic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.
Other Authors: Elbert, Sarah.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Northeastern University Press, [1997]
Subjects:
Alcott, Louisa May, > 1832-1888 > Political and social views.
African Americans > Fiction.
Race relations > Fiction.
Sex role > Fiction.
Slavery > Fiction.
Gender roles.
Role behavior.
United States > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • M.L.
  • Nelly's hospital
  • Colored soldiers' letters
  • An hour
  • My contraband
  • Elisha Harris, chapter 10 of The United States Sanitary Commission Report.

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