SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

PRIMARY WORKS

Behind a Mask:The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. Ed. Madeleine B. Stern. New York: Avenel, 1975. New York: Morrow, 1997.

“Diana and Persis.” Alternative Alcott. Ed. Elaine Showalter. American Women Writers Series. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988, 383-441.

A Double Life: Newly Discovered Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. Ed. Madeleine B. Stern with Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988.

Eight Cousins; or,The Aunt-Hill. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1875. New York: Dell, 1986.

Freaks of Genius: Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. Ed. Daniel Shealy with Joel Myerson and Madeleine B. Stern. Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture 28. New York: Greenwood, 1991.

From Jo March’s Attic: Stories of Intrigue and Suspense. Ed. Madeleine B. Stern and Daniel Shealy. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Hospital Sketches. Boston: James Redpath, 1863. Reprinted in Alternative Alcott, 3-93.

The Inheritance. New York: Dutton, 1997.

Jo’s Boys and How They Turned Out. A Sequel to “Little Men.” Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1949.

The Journals of Louisa May Alcott. Ed. Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy with Madeleine B. Stern. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.

Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys. London: Samson Low, 1871. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1947.

Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868; Part Second. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1869. Ed. Elaine Showalter. New York: Viking Penguin, 1989.

A Long Fatal Love Chase. New York: Random House, 1995.

Louisa May Alcott on Race, Sex, and Slavery. Ed. Sarah Elbert. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.

Louisa May Alcott: Selected Fiction. Ed. Daniel Shealy, Madeleine B. Stern, and Joel Myerson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.

Louisa May Alcott’s Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories. Ed. Daniel Shealy. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

A Modern Mephistopheles. No Name Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1877. Reprinted in A Modern Mephistopheles and Taming a Tartar. Ed. Madeleine B. Stern. New York: Praeger, 1987.

Moods. Boston: Loring, 1864. Revised edition. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1882. Ed. Sarah Elbert. American Women Writers Series. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

Norna or, the Witch’s Curse. Ed. Juliet McMaster. Edmonton: Juvenilia Press, 1994. An Old-Fashioned Girl. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1870. New York: Viking Penguin, 1996.

Plots and Counterplots: More Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. Ed. Madeleine B. Stern. New York: Avenel, 1976. Reprinted as A Marble Woman: Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. New York: Morrow, 1995.

Rose in Bloom, A Sequel to “Eight Cousins.” Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876. New York: Dell, 1986.

The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott. Ed. Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy with Madeleine B. Stern. Boston: Little, Brown, 1987.

“Transcendental Wild Oats.” Independent 25 (December 18, 1873). Reprinted in Alternative Alcott, 364-79, and Louisa May Alcott: Selected Fiction, 447-60.

Work: A Story of Experience. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1873. New York: Viking Penguin, 1994.

Works of Louisa May Alcott. Ed. Claire Booss. New York: Avenel, 1982.

SECONDARY WORKS: BOOKS

Bedell, Madelon. The Alcotts: Biography of a Family. New York: Charles N. Potter, 1980.

Cheney, Ednah D. Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889. Reprinted as Louisa May Alcott. Introduction by Ann Douglas. American Men and Women of Letters Series. New York: Chelsea House, 1980.

Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott. Ed. Madeleine B. Stern. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984.

Elbert, Sarah. A Hunger for Home: Louisa May Alcott and “Little Women.” Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1984. Revised edition. A Hunger for Home: Louisa May Alcott’s Place in American Culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

Keyser, Elizabeth Lennox. “Little Women”: A Family Romance. Twayne’s Master-work Studies. New York:Twayne, 1999.

———. Whispers in the Dark:The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.

“Little Women” and the Feminist Imagination. Ed. Janice M. Alberghene and Beverly Lyon Clark. New York: Garland, 1998.

MacDonald, Ruth K. Louisa May Alcott. Twayne United States Authors Series, no. 457. Boston:Twayne, 1983.

Marsella, Joy A. The Promise of Destiny: Children and Women in the Short Stories of Louisa May Alcott. Contributions to the Study of Childhood and Youth, no. 2.Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1983.

Saxton, Martha. Louisa May: A Modern Biography of Louisa May Alcott. New York: Avon, 1978.

Stern, Madeleine B. Louisa May Alcott. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950, 1978. Revised edition. Louisa May Alcott: A Biography. New York: Random House, 1996.

Strickland, Charles. Victorian Domesticity: Families in the Art and Life of Louisa May Alcott. Foreword by Robert Coles. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1985.

SECONDARY SOURCES: ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Armstrong, Frances. “ ‘Here Little, and Hereafter Bliss’: Little Women and the Deferral of Greatness.” American Literature 64 (1992): 453-74.

Auerbach, Nina. “Waiting Together:Two Families.” Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978, 35-73.

Bassil, Veronica. “The Artist at Home: The Domestication of Louisa May Alcott.” Studies in American Fiction 15 (1987): 187-97.

Bernstein, Susan Naomi. “Writing and Little Women: Alcott’s Rhetoric of Subversion.” American Transcendental Quarterly n.s. 7 (1993): 25-43.

Brodhead, Richard H. “Starting Out in the 1860s: Alcott, Authorship, and the Postbellum Literary Field.” Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Campbell, Donna M.“Sentimental Conventions and Self-Protection: Little Women and The Wide,Wide World.” Legacy 11 (1994): 118-29.

Carpenter, Lynette. “ ‘Did They Never See Anyone Angry Before?’: The Sexual Politics of Self-Control in Louisa May Alcott’s ‘A Whisper in the Dark.’ ” Legacy 3 (1986): 31-41.

Chapman, Mary. “Gender and Influence in Louisa May Alcott’s A Modern Mephistopheles.”Legacy 13 (1996): 19-37.

Clark, Beverly Lyon. “Domesticating the School Story, Regendering a Genre: Alcott’s Little Men.”New Literary History 26 (1995): 323-42.

———. “A Portrait of the Artist as a Little Woman.” Children’s Literature 17 (1989): 81-97.

Cowan, Octavia. Introduction. A Modern Mephistopheles. By Louisa May Alcott. Toronto: Bantam, 1987.

Crisler, Jesse S. “Alcott’s Reading in Little Women: Shaping the Autobiographical Self.” Resources for American Literary Study 20 (1994): 27-36.

Dalke, Anne. “ ‘The House-Band’: The Education of Men in Little Women.” College English 47 (1985): 571-78.

Donovan, Ellen. “Reading for Profit and Pleasure: Little Women and The Story of a Bad Boy.”Lion and the Unicorn 18 (1994): 143-53.

Estes, Angela M., and Kathleen Margaret Lant. “Dismembering the Text: The Horror of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.” Children’s Literature 17 (1989): 98-123.

———. “The Feminist Redeemer: Louisa May Alcott’s Creation of the Female Christ in Work.”Christianity and Literature 40 (1991): 223-53.

———. “ ‘We Don’t Mind the Bumps’: Reforming the Child’s Body in Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Cupid and Chow-chow.’ ” Children’s Literature 22 (1994): 27- 42.

Fetterley, Judith. “Impersonating ‘Little Women’: The Radicalism of Alcott’s Behind a Mask.”Women’s Studies 10 (1983): 1-14.

———. “Little Women: Alcott’s Civil War.” Feminist Studies 5 (1979): 369-83.

Foster, Shirley, and Judy Simons. “Louisa May Alcott: Little Women.” What Katy Read: Feminist Re-Readings of “Classic” Stories for Girls. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995.

Gaard, Greta. “ ‘Self-Denial Was All the Fashion’: Repressing Anger in Little Women.”Papers on Language and Literature 27 (Winter 1991): 3-19.

Gehrman, Jennifer A. “ ‘I am half-sick of shadows’: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Ladies of Shalott.” Legacy 14 (1997): 123-28.

Griswold, Jerry. “Bosom Enemies: Little Women.” Audacious Kids: Coming of Age in America’s Classic Children’s Books. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Habegger, Alfred. “Precocious Incest: First Novels by Louisa May Alcott and Henry James.” Massachusetts Review 26 (1985): 233-62.

Halttunen, Karen. “The Domestic Drama of Louisa May Alcott.” Feminist Studies 10 (1984): 233-54.

Hollander, Anne. “Reflections on Little Women.” Children’s Literature 9 (1981): 28-39.

James, Henry. “Miss Alcott’s Moods.” North American Review 101 ( July 1865): 276-81. Reprinted Moods by Louisa May Alcott. Ed. Sarah Elbert. American Women Writers Series. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991, 219-24.

Kaledin, Eugenia. “Louisa May Alcott: Success and the Sorrow of Self-Denial.” Women’s Studies 5 (1878): 251-63.

Keyser, Elizabeth Lennox. “ ‘Playing Puckerage’: Alcott’s Plot in ‘Cupid and Chow-chow.’ ” Children’s Literature 14 (1986): 105-22.

Langland, Elizabeth. “Female Stories of Experience: Alcott’s Little Women in Light of Work.” The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development. Ed. Elizabeth Abel, Marianne Hirsch, and Elizabeth Langland. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1983, 112-17, 333-34.

May, Jill P. “Spirited Females of the Nineteenth Century: Liberated Moods in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.” Children’s Literature in Education 11 (Spring 1980): 10-20.

Minadeo, Christy Rishoi. “Little Women in the 21st Century.” Images of the Child. Ed. Harry Eiss. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1994, 119-214.

Murphy, Ann B. “The Borders of Ethical, Erotic, and Artistic Possibilities in Little Women.”Signs 15 (Spring 1990): 562-85.

O’Brien, Sharon. “Tomboyism and Adolescent Conflict: Three Nineteenth-Century Case Studies.” Woman’s Being, Woman’s Place: Female Identity and Vocation in American History. Ed. Mary Kelly. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1979, 351-72.

Patterson, Mark. “Racial Sacrifice and Citizenship: The Construction of Masculinity in Louisa May Alcott’s ‘The Brothers.’ ” Studies in American Fiction 25 (1997): 147-66.

Reardon, Colleen.“Music as Leitmotif in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.”Children’s Literature 24 (1996): 74-85.

Rosenfeld, Natania. “Artists and Daughters in Louisa May Alcott’s Diana and Persis .”New England Quarterly 64 (1991): 3-21.

Sanderson, Rena. “A Modern Mephistopheles: Louisa May Alcott’s Exorcism of Patriarchy.” American Transcendental Quarterly n.s. 5 (1991): 41-55.

Showalter, Elaine. “Little Women: The American Female Myth.” Sister’s Choice:Tradition and Change in American Women’s Writing. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991, 42-64, 183-85.

Sicherman, Barbara. “Reading Little Women: The Many Lives of a Text.” U.S. History as Women’s History: New Feminist Essays. Ed. Linda K. Kerber, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Kathryn Kish Sklar. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995, 245-66, 414-24.

Stimpson, Catharine R. “Reading for Love: Canons, Paracanons, and Whistling Jo March.” New Literary History 21 (1990): 957-76.

Vallone, Lynne. “The Daughters of the Republic: Girls’ Play in Nineteenth-Century Juvenile Fiction.” Disciplines of Virtue: Girls’ Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, 106-34, 192-200.

Van Buren, Jane.“Little Women: A Study in Adolescence and Alter Egos.” The Modernist Madonna: Semiotics of the Maternal Metaphor. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989, 96-123, 192-97.

Yellin, Jean Fagan. “From Success to Experience: Louisa May Alcott’s Work.” Massachusetts Review 21 (1980): 527-39.

Young, Elizabeth. “A Wound of One’s Own: Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War Fiction.” American Quarterly 48 (1996): 439-74.

Zehr, Janet S. “The Response of Nineteenth-Century Audiences to Louisa May Alcott’s Fiction.” American Transcendentalist Quarterly n.s. 1 (1987): 323-42.

Zwinger, Linda. “Little Women: The Legend of Good Daughters.” Daughters, Fathers , and the Novel: The Sentimental Romance of Heterosexuality. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991, 46-75, 1146-49.