... birth and those with established fortunes - either made or inherited - that allow access to social institutions of power. In contrast, as Ed Cohen notes in Talk on the Wilde Side, "agricultural labourers and the industrial working classes [ ] were largely determined by the material constraints circumscribing their lives ... of comfort afforded by such savings tends to be limited, and so an economic depression can lead to financial demise for those in the middle class. Hence, as Cohen notes, the spectre of failure haunts the middle class even as it anticipates a better life (19-21). Put ....

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... because they are usually the ones that are read earliest in life- (Hunt, 1). Because of this lack of acknowledgment by the literary establishment, the critic P. Hunt maintains that children's books should be displaced from the literary canon altogether (7). But when viewed from both a critical and emotional standpoint, children's literature occupies a very dense subgroup of the Literary Canon. It appeals ... Fetterly). While this criticism may be a bit harsh, I would deem it quite accurate, as the perception Alcott appears to give off is that a young woman may be free and independent fo...

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