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Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery

By Alcott, Louisa M. & Elbert, Sarah

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Louisa May Alcott championed women's causes in gothic tales of interracial romance and in newspaper articles published during the Civil War. Drawn from her service as a nurse in a Union hospital as well as from her radical abolitionist activities, these writings allow Alcott to comment boldly on unstable racial identities, interracial sex and marriage, armed slave rebellion, war, and the links between the bondage of slaves and the conditions of white womanhood. A comprehensive introduction situates Alcott and her family within the network of antebellum reformers and unmasks her personal and literary struggles with the boundaries of race, sex, and class.

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ISBN
978-1-55553-307-6
Publisher
Northeastern


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Reviewed on May 1, 1997

Alcott (1832-88) came from a family of ardent social reformers that was part of a larger circle that included Emerson, Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller. In her excellent introduction, which comprises nearly one-third of this thin volume, Elbert (history and women's studies, SUNY at Binghamton) describes the insp...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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