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.
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"Trites examines in depth, as no scholar has done before her, the intricate parallels between the lives, works, attitudes, and social contexts of Samuel Clemens and Louisa May Alcott. This is an important contribution by a first-rate scholar who makes her case with verve and energy."--J.D. Stahl, professor of English at Virgina Tech, author, Mark Twain, Culture, and Gender, co-editor, Crosscurrents of Children's Literature
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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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The central irony of the relationship between Samuel Clemens and Louisa May Alcott lies not in the authors' differences, but in their frequently ignored similarities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Little Women, Selected Letters, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Roberts Brothers, Civil War, Little Men, United States, Joan of Arc, Jos Boys, New Woman, The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain, African American, Connecticut Yankee, Huck Finn, Louisa May Alcott, New York, Bronson Alcott, Jonathan Edwards, Professor Bhaer, Jo's Boys, Eight Cousins, Native Americans, True Woman Browse Sample Pages:
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The central irony of the relationship between Samuel Clemens and Louisa May Alcott lies not in the authors' differences, but in their frequently ignored similarities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
romantic evangelism, improving soul, adolescent characters, reform novels, novels for youth, adolescent protagonists, adolescent literature, publishing venue Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Little Women, Selected Letters, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Roberts Brothers, Civil War, Little Men, United States, Joan of Arc, Jos Boys, New Woman, The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain, African American, Connecticut Yankee, Huck Finn, Louisa May Alcott, New York, Bronson Alcott, Jonathan Edwards, Professor Bhaer, Jo's Boys, Eight Cousins, Native Americans, True Woman Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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