Pub Date : 2023-05-16DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2023.2206135
Zara Diab
Little Women at 150, edited by Daniel Shealy, features eight critical essays that consider Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, Little Women. Although the essays are not unified by a particular theme or approach, they are all written by “scholars whose research and writings over the past twenty years have helped elevate Alcott’s reputation in the academic community” (Shealy 11). The collection’s well-researched range of topics offers readers a deep and multifaceted dive into Alcott’s text, to march right alongside the sisters toward a more mature grasp of their world, as well as the one outside the book. Shealy’s introduction opens with the image of a nostalgic Julian Hawthorne. Julian – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s son, Louisa May Alcott’s friend, and the figure who once claimed to be the inspiration for Laurie – reminisces about the then 50-year-old story of the March sisters, having recently watched a film adaptation which drew in vast crowds and profits (Shealy 3–4). He credits it all to Alcott’s storytelling. Readers who pick up this collection likely feel a degree of nostalgia for Little Women, as well, and opening the book with a Laurie figure reminiscing over Little Women evokes a meta whirlpool of nostalgia, the emotion which the novel’s plot and characters themselves evoke and grapple with. Through such an opening, Shealy effortlessly pulls on the threads which carry the many levels of Little Women’s enduring success. 50 years after its publication, when Julian writes about watching the moving picture, the novel remains popular and influential for its themes and characters, which connect with readers and audiences on both a personal and sociocultural level. The same is true at 150 years, and these threads introduced by Shealy weave through the entire collection. Little Women lives on in print, in countless stage and screen adaptations, and in the hearts of admirers – young and old – worldwide, with Shealy conjecturing the number of sales over the past 150 years to be “in the millions” (8). Although, in academic circles, Alcott was not taken seriously until the mid–twentieth century with the emergence of feminism, Shealy’s diverse collection illustrates the many avenues of scholarly discourse that Little Women offers, connecting the text to other great writers, philosophers, and social, cultural, and historical movements. With its exploration of mature and complicated topics, this collection continues the movement away from “the view of Louisa May as ‘the children’s friend,’” and places her voice in conversation with leading social, historical, and literary figures (Shealy 11). The first essay, “Class, Charity, and Coming of Age in Little Women” by John Matteson, puts Alcott into a critical conversation about class and the responsibility of charity alongside John Winthrop and Friedrich Engels. Matteson writes that “Marmee uses charity to reassert her individual and social worth,” asserting that Alcott’s character reveals a weakness in Engels’s th
丹尼尔·谢利（Daniel Shealy）主编的《150岁的小女人》（Little Women at 150）收录了八篇评论文章，这些文章考虑了路易莎·梅·奥尔科特（Louisa May Alcott）的经典小说《小女人》。尽管这些文章没有以特定的主题或方法统一，但它们都是由“学者们撰写的，他们在过去二十年的研究和写作帮助提升了奥尔科特在学术界的声誉”（Shealy 11）。该系列研究充分的主题范围为读者提供了对奥尔科特文本的深入和多方面的了解，与姐妹们一起走向对她们的世界以及书外世界的更成熟的理解。谢利的介绍以怀旧的朱利安·霍桑形象开场。朱利安是纳撒尼尔·霍桑的儿子，路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的朋友，也是曾经声称是劳丽灵感来源的人物。他回忆起当时50岁的马奇姐妹的故事，最近观看了一部改编电影，吸引了大批观众和利润（谢利3-4）。他把这一切归功于奥尔科特讲故事。拿起这本书的读者可能也会对《小妇人》产生一定程度的怀旧情绪，以一个回忆《小妇人”的劳丽形象开篇，会唤起一种怀旧的元漩涡，这种情绪是小说情节和人物自己唤起并努力克服的。通过这样的开场白，谢利毫不费力地抓住了《小妇人》持久成功的多个层面。出版50年后，当朱利安写下观看电影的故事时，这部小说仍然很受欢迎，因为它的主题和人物在个人和社会文化层面上与读者和观众建立了联系。150年后也是如此，Shealy引入的这些丝线贯穿了整个系列。《小妇人》在印刷品、无数舞台和银幕改编作品中，以及在全世界年轻人和老年人的崇拜者心中，Shealy推测过去150年的销售额将达到“数百万”（8）。尽管在学术界，奥尔科特直到20世纪中期女权主义的出现才受到重视，但谢利的多样化收藏展示了《小妇人》提供的许多学术话语途径，将文本与其他伟大的作家、哲学家以及社会、文化和历史运动联系起来。随着对成熟和复杂话题的探索，这本集继续远离“路易莎·梅作为‘孩子们的朋友’的观点”，并将她的声音放在与社会、历史和文学领袖的对话中（Shealy 11）。约翰·马特森的第一篇文章《小女人的阶级、慈善和成年》将奥尔科特与约翰·温斯罗普和弗里德里希·恩格斯一起带入了一场关于阶级和慈善责任的批判性对话。马特森写道，“玛米利用慈善来重申她的个人和社会价值”，并断言奥尔科特的性格揭示了恩格斯关于家庭奴役理论的弱点，它没有考虑慈善工作的价值，慈善工作“给接受者带来救济，给捐赠者带来幸福……[和]有利于经济，给穷人提供他们可以用来改善生活的手段”（28）。通过这种方式，马特森断言，奥尔科特提供慈善工作是一种平衡的社会愿景，将她的儿童小说的意义提升为社会结构的话语。Roberta Seelinger Trites的文章《路易莎·梅·奥尔科特对朝圣者进步的爱默生式使用：重写本中的小女人》将奥尔科特的声音定位为与拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生的《2023年女性研究》第52卷第5期603–605
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2023.2206134
Jeremy Johnston
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2023.2197230
R. Maitzen
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Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2023.2206133
Melanie J. Fishbane
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Pub Date : 2023-04-24DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2023.2197231
Carol Cosman
However, this era also allow you to get the book from many sources. The off line book store may be a common place to visit to get the book. But now, you can also find it in the on-line library. This site is one of the on-line library in which you can find your chosen one to read. Now, the presented looking in the mirror is a book that you can find here. This book tends to be the book that will give you new inspirations.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2023.2194023
Atieh Asadollahi
On the Iranian calendar, it is the year 1401. A new century has just started, and it means the country has been recently involved in a fin-de-siècle air which is sometimes also dubbed “Renaissance” to suggest the change many Iranians have sought through a series of widespread protests during the last months and even earlier than that, during the last few years. It has been in vogue to review what went on in the just-finished century in the country. Many video clips, photo collections, and essays have been released to show in synopsis which leader succeeded who, what wars and violent acts killed which people, how the environment was treated, when and how women were granted or denied their rights, and in general what it has come to mean to live in this part of the world at the turn of the century. Among these fashionable efforts to write contemporary history in first person (Poole and Nienass 94), this paper is not going to create one more to comply with the boom, but it intends to delve into the recent politics of memory-making specifically when practiced by Iranian women in order to seek some insight into the issues they try to tackle, the strategies they develop to tackle them, and the consequences that arise. Without a doubt, one of the most significant contemporary turns of events in Iran was the Islamic Revolution in 1979 which led to not only regime change in political terms but also a huge amount of lifestyle changes in social and cultural terms. While those new norms were to some extent voluntarily adopted at the beginning, they have failed more and more to be exercised freely. And as norms have always and everywhere in the world had a tighter hold over women than men (Muñoz Boudet et al. 39), Iranian women have
按照伊朗历法，今年是1401年。新世纪刚刚开始，这意味着这个国家最近陷入了一种“终结革命”的气氛，有时也被称为“文艺复兴”，指的是许多伊朗人在过去几个月甚至更早的几年里通过一系列广泛的抗议活动寻求的变革。回顾这个国家刚刚结束的一个世纪所发生的事情已经成为一种时尚。许多视频剪辑、摄影集和文章都以简介的形式展示了哪位领导人继承了谁的王位，哪些战争和暴力行为杀害了哪些人，环境是如何被对待的，妇女何时以及如何获得或剥夺了她们的权利，以及在世纪之交生活在世界这一地区的总体意义。在这些以第一人称书写当代历史的时髦努力中(Poole and Nienass 1994)，本文并不打算再创造一种符合这种繁荣的方式，但它打算深入研究最近伊朗妇女制造记忆的政治，特别是当她们试图解决问题时，她们制定了解决问题的策略，以及由此产生的后果。毫无疑问，伊朗当代最重要的事件之一是1979年的伊斯兰革命，它不仅在政治上改变了政权，而且在社会和文化方面也改变了大量的生活方式。虽然这些新规范在开始时在某种程度上是自愿采用的，但它们越来越不能自由执行。世界各地的社会规范对女性的控制总是比男性更严格(Muñoz Boudet et al. 39)，伊朗女性也是如此
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