SOURCE: An Introduction to Freaks of Genius: Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott, edited by Daniel Shealy, Madeleine B. Stern, and Joel Myerson, Greenwood Press, 1991, pp. 1-22.
In the following excerpt, Stern discusses recurring themes and structural devices in Alcott's sensation stories.
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