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From Little Houses to Little Women : Revisiting a Literary Childhood /

A typical travel book takes readers along on a trip with the author, but a great travel book does much more than that, inviting readers along on a mental and spiritual journey as well. This distinction is what separates Nancy McCabe's From Little Houses to Little Women from the typical and allo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCabe, Nancy, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, 2014
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Beginning the journey
  • Rereading childhood
  • Pepin, Wisconsin : Little house in the big woods
  • Journeys into female imagination
  • Independence, Kansas : Little house on the prairie
  • Mankato, Minnesota, and Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy books
  • Walnut Grove, Minnesota, and Burr Oak, Iowa : On the banks of Plum Creek and the Lost years
  • Coming of age with literature
  • De Smet, South Dakota, and Mansfield, Missouri : By the shores of Silver Lake, The long winter, Little town on the prairie, These happy golden years, The first four years, and Where the books were written
  • Prince Edward Island : Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne books
  • Concord, Massachusetts : Louisa May Alcott's Little women
  • Epilogue. Amherst, Massachusetts, and Emily Dickinson.