Bücher von Joy Kasson

Moving away from the family setting of her best-known works, Louisa May Alcott explores both her own personal conflicts as a woman, as well as those experienced by her contemporaries in the unemancipated 19th century. Social justice and women's work are the central themes of this novel.

?"Kasson's study explores the question of European influences on the works of five figures, each of whom helped create the first art and literature to be recognized universally as American. Three literary works and two paintings are specifically examined....Each of these works supports Kasson's contention that trips to Europe at pivotal points in the careers of these artists stimulated significant changes in their artistic goals."'?-Choice