March
Kate Conley, Edward Tuck Professor of French and Comparative Literature
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In March, Geraldine Brooks explores how the South was changing during the Civil War era through a character invented by Louisa May Alcott in Little Women – the missing father. Brooks does with geography what Butler does with time –she shows how an outsider, in this case, a northerner, might have responded to changing social conditions in the South in the early 1860s.