Alcott’s Other Little Woman: Erotic Love and Victorian Childhood in “A Marble Woman: or, The Mysterious Model”
The article argues that Cecil, the protagonist of Alcott’s “A Marble Woman,” is eroticized from the very start of the narrative, and that Alcott’s entire plotline—of an innocent damsel-child in distress rescued by an adult benefactor who subconsciously covets her and eventually marries her—is quinte...
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Main Author: | Etti Gordon Ginzburg |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2022-10-01
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Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/18779 |
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