Max Chapnick Awarded the Beverly Lyon Clark Article Prize
At the Louisa May Alcott Society's annual business meeting in Boston this year, Max L. Chapnick was awarded the Beverly Lyon Clark Article Prize for his essay, "Duty and Ambition in Louisa May Alcott Poems, Old and New." Committee members had this to say about the essay: Chapnick's article "makes significant new contributions ... by attending to Alcott’s poetry, which is understudied, attributing previously unattributed poems to Alcott and offering a compelling discussion of their significance. Max ’s discussion asserts that these poems (and his discussion of them) contributes to the case for the other previously unattributed stories he has identified. I admire the readings he offers of the individual poems. He both situates them within the broader context of 19th century poetry by women and within Alcott’s body of work, offering an elegant argument for how these poems contribute to our understanding of the tension between duty and ambit...