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- Title
"So Contrary and Provoking": Love in Louisa May Alcott's An Old-Fashioned Girl (1869).
- Authors
Salenius, Sirpa
- Abstract
Although Louisa May Alcott's An Old-Fashioned Girl (1869) promotes conventional gender expectations and traditional values, at the same time it depicts heterosexual marriage as mercenary and dispassionate. It proposes women's choice to become self-sustaining as a positive alternative to marriage. Thus, the narrative seems to destabilize the same conventionality it promotes: "spinsterhood," independent career women, and same-gender affection all appear in a positive light. Beyond Alcott's conventional plot, the book proposes some progressive, provocative, and ambiguous scenarios the unveiling of which requires the readers' collaboration.
- Subjects
ALCOTT, Louisa May, 1832-1888; LOVE in literature; OLD-Fashioned Girl, An (Book); HETEROSEXUALITY; MARRIAGE in literature
- Publication
European Journal of American Studies, 2022, Vol 17, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1991-9336
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4000/ejas.18637