Characteristics of the Female Discourse in Louisa May Alcott’s Novels

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10.2991/assehr.k.220306.045How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Louisa May Alcott; Work novels; Gender consciousness; Female discourse

Abstract

This article is a study of the relevance of Alcott’s work novels and female consciousness. The ideology of “separate spheres” [1] prevailing in American society in the 19th century confined women to the family most of the time, but both in reality and in the literary imagination, women were constantly expanding their space outward. The work narrative in Louisa May Alcott’s novels reproduces the process of women moving from “private sphere” to “public sphere”. This article attempts to interpret this process, read Alcott’s work novels in detail through the method of intertextual dialogue between the novel text and other texts, as well as the study of the social and historical context of the novel text, and explore the existence predicament of American women and the evolution of ethical ideas in the 19th century. This research has certain reference significance for gender consciousness and literary writing.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Meilin Cao
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/03/30
TI  - Characteristics of the Female Discourse in Louisa May Alcott’s Novels
BT  - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 286
EP  - 290
SN  - 2352-5398
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