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By Roberta S. Trites

Trites argues that Twain and Alcott wrote on related themes simply because they have been so deeply plagued by the Civil warfare, by way of cataclysmic emotional and monetary losses of their households, via their cultural immersion within the tenets of Protestant philosophy, and by way of sexual tensions which may have prompted their curiosity in writing for young people, Trites demonstrates how the authors participated in a cultural dynamic that marked the altering nature of early life in the United States, frightening a literary sentiment that maintains to notify younger grownup literature. either intuited that the transitory nature of early life makes it ripe for expression approximately human capability for swap and reform.

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