{"product_id":"moods-paperback-softback-9780813516707","title":"Moods (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813516707","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMoods\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLouisa May Alcott (Author), Sarah Elbert (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813516707\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 January 1991\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e538 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAlcott's romantic but serious first novel is a landmark not only in her own literary history, but in the history of American feminist fiction.\u003c\/div\u003e - Alison Lurie\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoods\u003c\/i\u003e, Louisa May Alcott's first novel was published in 1864, four years before the best-selling \u003ci\u003eLittle Women.\u003c\/i\u003e The novel unconventionally presents a \"little woman,\" a true-hearted abolitionist spinster, and a fallen Cuban beauty, their lives intersecting in Alcott's first major depiction of the \"woman problem.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSylvia Yule, the heroine of \u003ci\u003eMoods,\u003c\/i\u003e is a passionate tomboy who yearns for adventure.  The novel opens as she embarks on a river camping trip with her brother and his two friends, both of whom fall in love with her. These rival suitors, close friends, are modeled on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Daniel Thoreau. Aroused, but still \"moody\" and inexperienced, Sylvia marries the wrong man. In the rest of the novel, Alcott attempts to resolve the dilemma she has created and leave her readers asking whether, in fact, there is a place for a woman such as Sylvia in a man's world.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1882, eighteen years after the original publication, Alcott revised and republished the novel. Her own literary success and the changes she helped forge in women's lives now allowed her heroine to meet, as Alcott said, \"a wiser if less romantic fate than in the former edition.\" This new volume contains the complete text of the 1864 \u003ci\u003eMoods \u003c\/i\u003eand Alcott's revisions for the 1882 version, along with explanatory notes by the editor. A critical introduction places \u003ci\u003eMoods\u003c\/i\u003e in the context of Alcott's own literary history and in the larger historical setting of nineteenth-century society and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Notes to Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e A Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoods, 1864\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Review of Moods by Henry James\u003cbr\u003e Selection from Moods, 1882\u003cbr\u003e Explanatory Notes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559276343576,"sku":"9780813516707","price":26.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/moods-paperback-softback-9780813516707","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}