The afterlife of "Little women":

"The hit Broadway show of 1912; the lost film of 1919; Katharine Hepburn, as Jo, sliding down a banister in George Cukor's 1933 movie; Mark English's shimmering 1967 illustrations; Jo - this time played by Sutton Foster - belting "I'll be / astonishing" in the 2004 Broa...

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1. Verfasser: Clark, Beverly Lyon 1948- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2014
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Zusammenfassung:"The hit Broadway show of 1912; the lost film of 1919; Katharine Hepburn, as Jo, sliding down a banister in George Cukor's 1933 movie; Mark English's shimmering 1967 illustrations; Jo - this time played by Sutton Foster - belting "I'll be / astonishing" in the 2004 Broadway musical flop: these are only some of the markers of the afterlife of Little Women. Then there's the nineteenth-century child who wrote, "If you do not ... make Laurie marry Beth, I will never read another of your books as long as I live." [...] Beverly Lyon Clark, a leading authority on children's literature, explores these and other after-tremors, both popular and academic, as she maps the reception of Louisa May Alcott's timeless novel, first published in 1868. Clark divides her discussion into four historical periods. The first covers the novel's publication and massive popularity in the late nineteenth century. In the second era-the first three decades of the twentieth century-the novel becomes a nostalgic icon of the domesticity of a previous century, while losing status among the literary and scholarly elite. In its midcentury afterlife(1930-1960), Little Women reaches a low in terms of its critical reputation but remains a well-known piece of Americana within popular culture. The book concludes with a long chapter on Little Women's afterlife from the 1960s to the present-a period in which the reading of the book seems to decline, while scholarly attention expands dramatically and popular echoes continue to proliferate. [...]" Klappentext
Beschreibung:X, 271 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781421415581

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