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010 $a 2007924057
020 $a9781587296222 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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050 00 $aPS1338$b.T75 2007
082 00 $a813/.4$222
100 1 $aTrites, Roberta Seelinger,$d1962-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97005372
245 10 $aTwain, Alcott, and the birth of the adolescent reform novel /$cRoberta Seelinger Trites.
260 $aIowa City :$bUniversity of Iowa Press,$c2007.
300 $axix, 209 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Fantasy of Self-Reliance: An Introductory Biography -- $g2.$tThe Metaphor of the Adolescent Reformer: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Little Women -- $g3.$tHistorical Interlude: Vita Religiosa and Romantic Evangelism -- $g4.$tEducation and Reform: Victorian Progressivism in Youth Literature -- $g5.$tGender and Reform: New Women and True Womanhood -- $g6.$tHistorical Interlude: Authors, Authority, and Publication -- $g7.$tAdolescent Reform Novels: The Legacy of Twain and Alcott.
520 1 $a"Scholars traditionally distinguish Mark Twain from Louisa May Alcott based on gender differences, but Roberta Seelinger Trites argues that there are enough similarities between the two authors' intellectual lives that their novels share interconnected social agendas. Trites does not imply that Twain and Alcott influenced each other - indeed, they had little effect on each other - but, paradoxically, they 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 expressions about human potential for change and reform. Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel explores the effects these authors' extraordinary popularity had in the solidifying what could be called the adolescent reform novel. The factors that led Twain and Alcott to write for youth, and the effects of their decisions about how and what to write for that audience, involve the literary and intellectual history of two people - and the nation in which they lived."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aTwain, Mark,$d1835-1910$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aTwain, Mark,$d1835-1910$xInfluence.
600 10 $aAlcott, Louisa May,$d1832-1888$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aAlcott, Louisa May,$d1832-1888$xInfluence.
650 0 $aYoung adult fiction, American$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114018
650 0 $aAdolescence in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85000953
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2007924057-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2007924057-d.html
852 00 $bglx$hPS1338$i.T75 2007