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Madeleine B. Stern, ed. L. M. Alcott: Signature of Reform.(Book Review)

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From: Utopian Studies
Date: 20030101
Author:van Keuren, Luise

Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002. ix + 226 pp. $17.95.

RECENT YEARS have seen the transformation of Louisa May Alcott as a figure in American literature. Alcott's long-forgotten romance and Gothic novels were unearthed and published in new editions. Stories were rescued from various nineteenth-century magazines. Her Civil War Hospital Sketches found a place in cultural, historical, and literary studies. Re-issued works have shaped our sense of Alcott's range, her talents as a writer and our sense of her very identity. American literature and women's studies scholars ...

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