The subject of Victorian Domesticity is family life in America. The life and works of Louisa May Alcott served as the ve
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Table of contents :
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1: Alcott's Heritage: The Sentimental Revolution
Chapter 2: The Contradictions of a Sentimental Childhood: Louisa's Early Years
Chapter 3: Growing Up Female and the Family Claim
Chapter 4: Three Audiences and Three Images of Young Womanhood
Chapter 5: Feminism and the Family
Chapter 6: From Old-Fashioned Families to Families of Fashion: The Curse of Success
Chapter 7: Companionate Marriage and the Androgynous Ideal
Chapter 8: The Nurture of the Child: The Sentimental Legacy
Chapter 9: The Family and the World: The Privatization of Utopia
Epilogue: The Legacy of Victorian Domesticity
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author
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