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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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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 inspirational but often threadbare childhood of Louisa, one of four daughters of Bronson and Abigail Alcott, as well as her emerging reformist sensibilities and her work as an abolitionist and Union nurse. Alcott's abolitionist writings, gathered here for the first time, comprise five pieces, the most powerful being a tale entitled "My Contraband," about two brothers, one a slave, the other his master. While not on a par with Alcott's major novels, this is a noteworthy?if at times overly didactic?collection by an author who was clearly ahead of her time. Highly recommended.?Diane Gardner Premo, SILS, SUNY at Buffalo
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- PublisherNortheastern University Press
- Publication date1997
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