The Right Tone for the Hardest Moments: Louisa May Alcott’s New York Stories of Child Labor and Urban Benevolence in the Mid-1870s

This article examines Louisa May Alcott’s tales based on her mid-1870s tour of philanthropic institutions for New York’s homeless boys. In an effort to make her lessons more palatable to her young readership and reflecting her own beliefs in the themes of self-improvement, Alcott often euphemizes th...

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Main Author: Daniela Daniele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2020-10-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/14642
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