Performing Womanhood: Fictions of Love in Louisa May Alcott’s Behind a Mask

This article discusses Louisa May Alcott’s novella Behind a Mask in the light of Melville’s last novel, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857), arguing that, behind the mask of a sentimental novel that appears to conform to stereotypes, Alcott depicts a true-to-life heroine and shows how fiction...

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Autor principal: Durrans, Stéphanie
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: European journal of American studies 2022
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