“Cozy Corners” and “Pebbly Beaches”: Resolving Emotional Distress Through Nature Connectedness in Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, and Jack and Jill
摘要
This essay demonstrates the ways in which nature is invited as a co-facilitator in health and healing, both emotional and physical, for young people in Alcott’s work. Alcott uses both negative and positive examples of dealing with trauma drawn from Jack and Jill, Eight Cousins, and Rose in Bloom. Her ideals of health and healing are backed by twenty-first-century ecotherapy research and can be seen as highly contemporary.