Contributions by Beverly Lyon Clark, Christine Doyle, Gregory
Eiselein, John Matteson, Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis,
Anne K. Phillips, Daniel Shealy, and Roberta Seelinger Trites As
the golden age of children's literature dawned in America in the
mid-1860s, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, a work that many
scholars view as one of the first realistic novels for young
people, soon became a classic. Never out of print, Alcott's tale of
four sisters growing up in nineteenth-century New England has been
published in more than fifty countries around the world. Over the
century and a half since its publication, the novel has grown into
a cherished book for girls and boys alike. Readers as diverse as
Carson McCullers, Gloria Steinem, Theodore Roosevelt, Patti Smith,
and J. K. Rowling have declared it a favorite. Little Women at 150,
a collection of eight original essays by scholars whose research
and writings over the past twenty years have helped elevate
Alcott's reputation in the academic community, examines anew the
enduring popularity of the novel and explores the myriad
complexities of Alcott's most famous work. Examining key issues
about philanthropy, class, feminism, Marxism, Transcendentalism,
canon formation, domestic labor, marriage, and Australian
literature, Little Women at 150 presents new perspectives on one of
the United States' most enduring novels. A historical and critical
introduction discusses the creation and publication of the novel,
briefly traces the scholarly critical response, and demonstrates
how these new essays show us that Little Women and its
illustrations still have riches to reveal to its readers in the
twenty-first century.
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