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Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte : Transatlantic Translations by Christine Doyle (2003, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Tennessee Press
ISBN-101572332417
ISBN-139781572332416
eBay Product ID (ePID)30244712
Product Key Features
Number of Pages232 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameLouisa May ALCOTT and Charlotte Bronte : Transatlantic Translations
Publication Year2003
SubjectWomen Authors, Subjects & Themes / Women, American / General, Women's Studies, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
TypeTextbook
AuthorChristine Doyle
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight13 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN99-050721
Reviews"Doyle demonstrates that Alcott kept up a running dialogue with her distinguished British counterpart, both contesting and adapting Brontë's treatments of woment's spiritual, social, and vocational lives so as to develop her own distinctively American talent." --Elizabeth Keyser, author of Whispers in the Dark: The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott "Doyle provides an illuminating discussion of the full range of Louise May Alcott's writing. Comparisons with Charlotte Brontë spark keen insights into literary traditions and cultural events. General readers will enjoy this book; Alcott and Brontë scholars will need it." --Beverly Lyon Clark, author of Regendering the School Story: Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813/.4
Synopsis"Doyle demonstrates that Alcott kept up a running dialogue with her distinguished British counterpart, both contesting and adapting Brontë's treatments of woment's spiritual, social, and vocational lives so as to develop her own distinctively American talent." --Elizabeth Keyser, author of Whispers in the Dark: The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott "Doyle provides an illuminating discussion of the full range of Louise May Alcott's writing. Comparisons with Charlotte Brontë spark keen insights into literary traditions and cultural events. General readers will enjoy this book; Alcott and Brontë scholars will need it." --Beverly Lyon Clark, author of Regendering the School Story: Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys The work and life of British author Charlotte Brontë fascinated America's Louisa May Alcott throughout her own literary career. As a nineteenth-century writer struggling with many of the same themes and issues as Brontë, Alcott was drawn toward her British counterpart, but cultural differences created a literary distance between them sometimes as wide as the Atlantic. In this comparative study, Christine Doyle explores some of the intriguing parallels and differences between the two writers' backgrounds as she traces specific references to Brontë and her work--not only in Alcott's children's fiction, but also in her novels for adults and "sensation fiction." Doyle compares the treatment of three themes important to both writers--spirituality, interpersonal relations, and women's work--showing how Alcott translated Brontë's British reserve and gender- and class-based repression into her own American optimism and progressivism. In her early career, Alcott was so fascinated by Brontë's works that she patterned many of her characters on those of Brontë; she later adapted these British elements into a more recognizably American form, producing independent, strong heroines. In observing differences between the writers, Doyle notes that Alcott expresses less anti-Catholic sentiment than does Brontë. She also discusses the authors' attitudes toward the theater, showing how for Brontë drama is associated with falseness and hypocrisy, while for Alcott it is a profession that expresses possibilities of power and revelation. Throughout her insightful analysis, Doyle shows that Alcott responds as a uniquely American writer to the problems of American literature and life while never denying the powerful transatlantic influence exerted by Brontë. Doyle's work reflects a wide range of scholarship, solidly grounded in an understanding of the Victorian temperament, nineteenth-century British and American literature, and recent Alcott criticism and gives fuller voice to the multiple dimensions of Alcott as a nineteenth-century writer. The Author: Christine Doyle is an associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University., Many regard religious experience as the essence of religion, arguing that narratives might be created and rituals invented but that these are always secondary to the original experience itself. However, the concept of "experience" has come under increasing fire from a range of critics and theorists. This Reader presents writings from both those who assume the existence and possible universality of religious experience and those who question the very rhetoric of "experience". Bringing together both classic and contemporary writings, the Reader showcases differing disciplinary approaches to the study of religious experience: philosophy, literary and cultural theory, history, psychology, anthropology; feminist theory; as well as writings from within religious studies. The essays are structured into pairs, with each essay separately introduced with information on its historical and intellectual context. The ultimate aim of the Reader is to enable students to explore religious experience as rhetoric created to authorize social identities. The book will be an invaluable introduction to the key ideas and approaches for students of Religion, as well as Sociology and Anthropology. CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Desjarlais, Diana Eck, William James, Craig Martin, Russell T. McCutcheon, Wayne Proudfoot, Robert Sharf, Ann Taves, Charles Taylor, Joachim Wach, Joan Wallach Scott, Raymond Williams., Through close examination of Louisa May Alcott's letters, journals, and published writings, this book argues that Alcott responds to Charlotte Bronte's woman's 'heart' but resists her British soul.
LC Classification NumberPS1018.D69 2000
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