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Little Women: An Annotated Edition

door Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (Redacteur)

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"In this richly annotated, illustrated edition, Daniel Shealy illuminates the novel's deep engagement with issues such as social equality, reform movements, the Civil War, friendship, love, loss, and of course the passage into adulthood. The editor provides running commentary on biographic contexts, social and historical contexts, literary allusions, and words likely to cause difficulty to modern readers. With Shealy as a guide, we appreciate anew the confusions and difficulties that beset the March sisters as they overcome their burdens and journey toward maturity and adulthood. This edition examines the novel's central question: How does one grow up well?--… (meer)
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3½***. I'm not at all crazy about Little Women to begin with (I find it terribly preachy, in contrast with Anne of Green Gables), but this Belknap (Harvard) Press annotated edition (ISBN 9780674059719) is a lush coffee-table production worth reading for its illustrations and for its screen-shots from some of the film adaptations, particularly George Cukor's (1933) and Mervyn LeRoy's (1949). But Christopher Columbus! if the 1933 film adaptation in particular isn't vastly superior to the Alcott novel, particularly for Kate Hepburn's Jo.

If a reader is going to choose just one edition for academic study, the Norton Critical is probably to be preferred. This Belknap (Harvard) Press edition does contain some valuable annotation, but one criticism I have is an excessive and somewhat too overly certain reliance on the OED for words-and-phrases origins.

A particularly egregious example can be found on page 144, note 37: "The OED defines fuss and feathers as 'bustle and display,' and gives the first use of the term as 1866, just two years before the publication of Little Women." Ouch! but anyone familiar with American military history should be aware that "Old Fuss and Feathers" was the not-so-affectionate nickname bestowed in the mid-1840s by his enlisted men on General Winfield Scott during the Mexican War — something of which Alcott would certainly have been aware (though I don't mean to imply that this use of the phrase in Little Women had any reference to Scott). The antislavery-leaning Scott was the unsuccessful Whig presidential candidate in 1852, defeated by the pro-slavery Democrat Franklin Pierce, the lifelong friend of Alcott's Concord neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne. ( )
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