Twain, Alcott, and the birth of the adolescent reform novel /

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 thei...

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Main Author: Trites, Roberta Seelinger, 1962-
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Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2007
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505 0 |a The fantasy of self-reliance: An introductory biography -- The metaphor of the adolescent reformer: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Little Women -- Historical interlude: Vita Religiosa and romantic evangelism -- Education and reform: Victorian progressivism in youth literature -- Gender and reform: New women and true womanhood -- Historical interlude: Authors, authority, and publication -- Adolescent reform novels: The legacy of Twain and Alcott. 
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