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The Dimunition of Women Writers: An American Tradition
Rumaan Alam recently wondered, “Why Wasn’t Great American Novelist Jane Smiley On the Cover of a Magazine?” While Jonathan Franzen has been on the cover of Time magazine, heralded as the Great American...
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Why We Do Need Another Adaptation of Little Women
As Little Women prepares to turn 150 years old next year, at least three new adaptations are in the works. Sony Pictures has Greta Gerwig working on a script, an independent film starring Lea Thompson...
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Why Don’t More Boys Read Little Women?
When I began teaching Little Women in my American literature survey courses, I wondered how many of my students had read the book before. In that first class, only one said she had read it in high...
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Relearning Old Lessons: What a Forgotten Novel Can Teach Us About Immigration...
Martha Gellhorn’s 1940 novel A Stricken Field was a book destined to be neglected. It has had at least three strikes against it: 1) The book tells a story people didn’t (and don’t) want to hear,...
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