Louisa May Alcott championed women's causes in gothic tales of interracial romance and in newspaper articles published during the Civil War. Drawn from her service as a nurse in a Union hospital as well as from her radical abolitionist activities, these writings allow Alcott to comment boldly on unstable racial identities, interracial sex and marriage, armed slave rebellion, war, and the links between the bondage of slaves and the conditions of white womanhood. A comprehensive introduction situates Alcott and her family within the network of antebellum reformers and unmasks her personal and literary struggles with the boundaries of race, sex, and class.
- ISBN10 1555533086
- ISBN13 9781555533083
- Publish Date 17 April 1997
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Northeastern University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English