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Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel
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ISBN: 1587297701 9781587297700 9781587296222 1587296225 Year: 2007 Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,

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Trites argues that Twain and Alcott wrote on similar topics because they were so deeply affected by the Civil War, by cataclysmic emotional and financial losses in their families, by their cultural immersion in the tenets of Protestant philosophy, and by sexual tensions that may have stimulated their interest in writing for adolescents, Trites demonstrates how the authors participated in a cultural dynamic that marked the changing nature of adolescence in America, provoking a literary sentiment that continues to inform young adult literature. Both intuited that the transitory nature of adolesc

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Adolescence in literature. --- Young adult fiction, American --- History and criticism. --- Alcott, Louisa May, --- Twain, Mark, --- Alcott, Louisa May --- Alcott, Louisa M. --- Alcott, L. M. --- Alkūt, Luwīzā --- Aunt Jo's scrap-bag, Author of --- Aunt Kipp, Author of --- Author of An old-fashioned girl --- Author of Aunt Jo's scrap-bag --- Author of Aunt Kipp --- Author of Eight cousins --- Author of Hospital sketches --- Author of Kitty's class-day --- Author of Little men --- Author of Little women --- Author of Moods --- Author of Psyche's art --- Author of Work --- Barnard, A. M. --- Eight cousins, Author of --- Hospital sketches, Author of --- Kitty's class-day, Author of --- Little men, Author of --- Little women, Author of --- Moods, Author of --- Old-fashioned girl, Author of --- Olʹkot, Luiza --- Psyche's art, Author of --- Work, Author o, --- Олкотт, Луиза Мэй --- אלקוט, לואיזה מיי, --- ألكوت، لويزا مي --- ルイザメイオルコット, --- アルコツトルイザメイ, --- オルコツトルイザメイ, --- Twain, Mark --- Tvėn, Mark --- Tuėĭn, Mark --- Tuwayn, Mārk --- Twayn, Mārk --- Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo --- Tven, M. --- Touen, Makū --- Twain, Marek --- Make Tuwen --- Tuwen, Make --- Make Teviin --- Твен, Марк --- Touain, Mark --- טבןַ, מרק, --- טוויין, מארק, --- טוויין, מרק, --- טווין, מארק, --- טווין, מרק, --- טווען, מארק, --- טוין, מרק, --- טװען, מארק, --- טװײן, מארק, --- 馬克吐温, --- Tuvāyn, Mārk --- Tvāyn, Mārk --- تواين، مارک --- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne --- Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius --- Conte, Louis de --- Influence. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- adolescenten --- jeugdliteratuur --- Adolescence in literature --- History and criticism

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