War Correspondent, Journalism and Gothic Elements in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches
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Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches (1863) highlighted the emerging positions and roles of women during the American Civil War. Many critics have focused only on the content of the story. Nonetheless, the context of journalism and Alcott's role as correspondent in the story have not been fully understood in the criticism. Her readers were curious about the realities on the battlefield. More specifically, in Hospital Sketches, Alcott's character, Tribulation Periwinkle, wrote about her experience as Civil War nurse in her journal, in letters, in sketches printed serially in a newspaper, and then as a book. The address to many of her newspaper readers, which she titled “A Postscript” in Hospital Sketches, appeared later than her original newspaper serial. Its presence in her later book indicates the importance of the first newspaper printing. The question that her readers asked her about services for the dead was clearly an important matter. Gothic elements of image and likeness pervade this piece, and it provides precedent for her later Gothic stories in its genesis, journalistic publication, and religious context. Ultimately, her role as war correspondent and the representation of journalism in the story present a stepping stone for Alcott's future career as a writer of Gothic thrillers and for the new status of American women after the Civil War.
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Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches (1863) highlighted the emerging positions and roles of women during the American Civil War. Many critics have focused only on the content of the story. Nonetheless, the context of journalism and Alcott's role as correspondent in the story have not been fully understood in the criticism. Her readers were curious about the realities on the battlefield. More specifically, in Hospital Sketches, Alcott's character, Tribulation Periwinkle, wrote about her experience as Civil War nurse in her journal, in letters, in sketches printed serially in a newspaper, and then as a book. The address to many of her newspaper readers, which she titled “A Postscript” in Hospital Sketches, appeared later than her original newspaper serial. Its presence in her later book indicates the importance of the first newspaper printing. The question that her readers asked her about services for the dead was clearly an important matter. Gothic elements of image and likeness pervade this piece, and it provides precedent for her later Gothic stories in its genesis, journalistic publication, and religious context. Ultimately, her role as war correspondent and the representation of journalism in the story present a stepping stone for Alcott's future career as a writer of Gothic thrillers and for the new status of American women after the Civil War.
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