The Afterlife of Little Women

by Beverly Lyon Clark

Book Overview

This innovative study uncovers the surprising ways in which audiences responded to--and were influenced by--Little Women.

The hit Broadway show of 1912; the lost film of 1919; Katharine Hepburn, as Jo, sliding down a banister in George Cukor's 1933 movie; Mark English's shimmering 1967 illustrations; Jo--this time played by Sutton Foster--belting "I'll be / astonishing" in the 2004 Broadway musical flop: these are only some...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421415585
• ISBN13: 9781421415581
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.6"