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Author:   Azelina Flint ,  Lauren Hehmeyer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9780367691646

ISBN 10:   0367691647
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   25 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction by Azelina Flint Part I The Forgotten Alcott Chapter 1 ""Concordia’s Queen"": May Alcott and the Town of Concord by Daniel Shealy Chapter 2 ""Successive chapters in a romance"": May Alcott Nieriker’s Influence on the Development of the Woman Artist in Louisa May Alcott’s Fiction by Azelina Flint Chapter 3 ""Little Rafael""--May Alcott Nieriker’s Beginnings--A Biographical Sketch by Susan Bailey Part II The Ex-Patriot Chapter 4 Armed with a Brush: May Alcott Nieriker as a Representative Woman Artist in Paris by Lauren Hehmeyer Chapter 5 Alone Together in Paris: May Alcott Nieriker and Rosa Peckham Danielson by Amanda C. Burdan Chapter 6 Republics Abroad: The Art and Politics of Margaret Fuller and May Alcott Nieriker in Nineteenth Century Europe by Ariel Clark Silver Part III The Writer Chapter 7 ""Disciplinary Conversations"": May Alcott Nieriker’s ""An Artist’s Holiday"" by Marlowe Daly-Galeano Chapter 8 An Ideal Life: May Alcott Nieriker, Tourism, and Life Abroad by Kristi Lynn Martin Part IV The Artist Chapter 9 ""Let the World Know You Are Alive"" May Alcott Nieriker and Louisa May Alcott Confront Nineteenth-Century Ideas about Women’s Genius by Lauren Hehmeyer Chapter 10 Black Subjectivity in the Life and Art of May Alcott Nieriker by Julia K. Dabbs Chapter 11 ""The Pure Hope of Giving … Pleasure"": May Alcott, John Ruskin, and the Moral Aesthetic by John Matteson Part V Legacies Chapter 12 The ""Precious Legacy"" of May Alcott Nieriker: Her Paintings and her Child by Jan Turnquist Conclusion No Longer Forgotten by Lauren Hehmeyer"

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Azelina Flint is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Her first book, The Matrilineal Heritage of Louisa May Alcott and Christina Rossetti, was supported by the Fulbright American Studies Fellowship and recovers the influence of Alcott’s and Rossetti’s mothers and sisters on their work. It appears in Routledge’s Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature (2020). Azelina has published articles on the Alcotts in Comparative American Studies and Horror Studies (forthcoming). She organized the first international conference on May Alcott Nieriker at Université Paris Diderot in 2018. Lauren Hehmeyer is retired from Texarkana College. She has published in the fields of library science, education, and literature and received multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She presented at the Thoreau Bicentennial Celebration in Concord, Massachusetts, and at the ""Recovering May Alcott Nieriker"" conference in Paris. Her paper on the genius of Louisa May Alcott and May Alcott Nieriker appears in American Studies Journal. Hehmeyer is a popular speaker on both the Alcotts and Thoreau.

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