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gender, culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder

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An edition of Constructing the Little house (1997)

Constructing the Little house

gender, culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder

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With more than thirty-five million copies in print, the Little House series, written in the 1930s and 1940s by Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, has been a spectacular commercial success. What is it about this eight-volume serial novel for children that accounts for its enduring power? And what does the popularity of these books tell us about the currents of American culture?

Ann Romines interweaves personal observation with scholarly analysis to address these questions. Writing from a feminist perspective and drawing on the resources of gender studies, cultural studies, and new historicist reading, she examines both the content of the novels and the process of their creation.

She explores the relationship between mother and daughter working as collaborative authors and calls into question our assumptions about plot, juvenile fiction, and constructions of gender on the nineteenth-century frontier and in the Depression years when the Little House books were written. This is a book that will appeal both to scholars and to general readers who might welcome an engaging and accessible companion volume to the Little House novels.

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Language
English
Pages
287

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Cover of: Constructing the Little house
Constructing the Little house: gender, culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder
1997, University of Massachusetts Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-278) and index.

Published in
Amherst

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3545.I342 Z83 1997, PS3545.I342Z83 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 287 p. :
Number of pages
287

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL668862M
Internet Archive
constructinglitt00romi
ISBN 10
155849121X, 1558491228
LCCN
97014675
OCLC/WorldCat
36847706
Library Thing
122057
Goodreads
2344290
8247

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