LITTLE WOMEN

Thisauthoritative,accuratetextofthefirstedition(1868—69)ofLittleWomenisaccompaniedbytextualvariantsandthoroughexplanatoryannotations."BackgroundsandContexts"includesawealthofarchivalmaterials,amongthempreviouslyunpublishedcorrespondencewithThomasNilesandAlcott'sownprecursorstoLittleWomen."Criticism"reprintstwentynineteenth-centuryreviews.Sevenmodernessaysrepresentavarietyofcriticaltheoriesusedtoreadandstudythenovel,includingfeminist(CatharineR.Stimpson,ElizabethKeyser),newhistoricist(RichardH.Brodhead),psychoanalytic(AngelaM.EstesandKathleenMargaretLant),andreader-response(ElizabethVincent).AChronologyandSelectedBibliographyarealsoincluded.Abouttheseries:NootherseriesofclassictextsequalsthecaliberoftheNortonCriticalEditions.Eachvolumecombinesthemostauthoritativetextavailablewiththecomprehensivepedagogicalapparatusnecessarytoappreciatetheworkfully.Carefulediting,first-ratetranslation,andthoroughexplanatoryannotationsalloweachtexttomeetthehighestliterarystandardswhileremainingaccessibletostudents.Eacheditionisprintedonacid-freepaperandeverytextintheseriesremainsinprint.NortonCriticalEditionsarethechoiceforexcellenceinscholarshipforstudentsatmorethan2,000universitiesworldwide.AbouttheAuthorAnneK.PhillipsisAssociateProfessorofEnglishatKansasStateUniversitywheresheteachesChildren'sLiteratureandAmericanLiterature.Sheisco-authorofResourcesforTeachingtheBedfordIntroductiontoLiteratureandco-editoroftheannualChildren'sLiterature21.WithGregoryEiselein,sheco-editedTheLouisaMayAlcottEncyclopedia.GregoryEiseleinisAssociateProfessorandDirectorofGraduateStudiesinEnglish,whereheteachesAmericanLiterature.HeistheauthorofLiteratureandHumanitarianReformintheCivilWarEraandeditorofEmmaLazarus:SelectedWritingsandAdahIsaacsMenken:InfeliciaandOtherWritings.WithAnneK.Phillips,heco-editedTheLouisaMayAlcottEncyclopedia.