“In Louisa May Alcott´s cosmopolitan circles the response to the global changes was not to privilege the near and familiar by excluding or demonizing the “other” but to value “the other” and work towards connection. Alcott bypassed her own English-puritan inheritance entirely. Jo falls in love with a poor German philosopher, from an Anglo-American perspective such a choice has seemed bizarre but from a transnational perspective, it makes perfect sense” (Walls). https://littlewomenchannel.tumblr.com/post/648029692570583040/louisa-may-alcott-and-charles-follen