Constructing the Little house : gender, culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Label

Constructing the Little house : gender, culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder

Title remainder

gender, culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder

Statement of responsibility

Ann Romines

Creator

• Romines, Ann, 1942-

Subject

• Children -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Children's stories, American -- History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Frontier and pioneer life in literature
• History
• Autobiographical fiction, American -- History and criticism
• Sex role in literature
• Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Women pioneers in literature
• Mothers and daughters in literature

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

The author examines the writing of the Little House books and "explores the relationship between mother and daughter working as collaborative authors and calls into question our assumptions about plot, juvenile fiction, and constructions of gender on the nineteenth century frontier and in the Depression years when the Little House books were written."--Cover

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.52

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PS3545.I342

LC item number

Z83 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography