Title: Itinerari formativi di piccole donne
Description: Juvenile literature with utopian ideals, rooted in American Transcendentalist thought, points out how by one's committment to one's gift, outlook on life, perseverance and intuition, it is easy and almost a natural consequence to find solutions to overcome problems. This is so even going as far as witnessing a total reversal fo fortune (a leitmotive in Bunett's novels) where, guided by one's inner resilience andnd persistency, one manages to positively influnce others and to turn a period of crisis into a fruitful inner growth proces (Polyanna's  thesis)- 
 Louisa Alcott was the first woman writer to jump over conventional ideological fences. It is through her favourite  spokeswoman, the heroine of her domesticated novels.  Jo, that she coveyed us the immediate perception of inner and outer worlds. Alcott's aesthetics of deconstructing conventional language through a jargoon enabling  to open the doors of perception is internalized by authors like Porter and Burnett. They shared the same attitude to the usage of fresh concrete description that at the same time has symbolic resonance,  by introducing readers to the symbolic rites of passage that lead the grow-up tom-boy to womìny condition.
Subjects: American fiction, Bildungsromans, Books and reading, Criticism and interpretation, Girls, Girls in literature, History, History and criticism, Women and literature, Women authors, Young women, Young women in literature, American Bildungsromans
Places: United States
People: Eleanor H. Porter (1868-1920), Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century