Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel by Trites, Roberta S.

Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781587296222)

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Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel by Trites, Roberta S.

Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel

$34.95
Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel by Trites, Roberta S.

Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel

$34.95
Format: Hardcover
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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 adolescence makes it ripe for expression about human potential for change and reform.

Author: Roberta S. Trites
ISBN-10: 1587296225
ISBN-13: 9781587296222
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2007
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.15w x 0.81d
By Roberta S. Trites
By Roberta S. Trites
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Roberta Seelinger Trites is a professor of English at Illinois State University. The author of Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature (Iowa 2000), which won the 2002 Children's Literature Association Book Award, and Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels (Iowa 1997), which won an American Library Association Choice Award in 1997, she is currently president of the Children's Literature Association.

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