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Author Spacks, Patricia Meyer.

Title The adolescent idea : myths of youth and the adult imagination / Patricia Meyer Spacks.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [1981]
©1981

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  823 SP11    Check Shelf
Description ix, 308 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Form Also issued online.
Contents Contents: "Explorations, becoming, growth, and pain" -- "Nobody's power" -- "Straight from Mother Nature" -- Perplexities of passion : the eighteenth century -- Annals of anxiety -- The generations : imagination and growth (Walter Scott, Jane Austen) -- The generations : submerged conflict (Walter Scott, Jane Austen) -- Us or them : some Victorians -- Heroes : the early twentieth century -- Guilt and responsibility : the 1950's and the 1960's.
Subject English fiction -- History and criticism.
Adolescence in literature.
Youth in literature.
Myth in literature.
ISBN 0465000576: $17.00
9780465000579
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