1. Didactic Fiction in Alcott's Little Women
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. ... Alcott's portrayal of the young women, however, cannot get past without offering some brief criticism. ... 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 fre...
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