The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children's and Adolescent Literature and Culture

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-55120-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture

Victorian literature for audiences of all ages provides a broad foundation upon which to explore complex and evolving ideas about young people. In turn, this collection argues, contemporary works for young people that draw on Victorian literature and culture ultimately reflect our own disruptions and upheavals, particularly as they relate to child and adolescent readers and our experiences of them. The essays herein suggest that we struggle now, as the Victorians did then, to assert a cohesive understanding of young readers and that this lack of cohesion is a result of or a parallel to the disruptions taking place on a larger (even global) scale.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sawyer Fritz, Sonya

Day, Sara K

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Claudia Nelson

Introduction

Sonya Sawyer Fritz and Sara K. Day

1 "The great change in human history": The Recasting of the Fall of Man as the Crisis of Faith in His Dark Materials

Brett Carol Young

2 "What’s in the Empty Flat?": Specular Identity and Authorship in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline

Maryna Matlock

3 In Space No One Can Hear You Cry: Late-Victorian Adventure and Contemporary Boyhood in Disney’s Treasure Planet

Sonya Sawyer Fritz

4 Are We Not (Wo)Men?: Gender and Animality in Contemporary Young Adult Retellings of H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau

Amy Hicks

5 Steampunk Kim: The Neo-Victorian Cosmopolitan Child in Philip Reeve’s Larklight

Chamutal Noimann

6 The Dangerous Alphabet and the Dark Side of Victorian Domesticity

A. Robin Hoffman

7 Return of the Dapper Men and the Nonsense of Neo-Victorian Literature

Victoria Ford Smith

8 Asian Masculinity, Eurasian Identity, and Whiteness in Cassandra Clare’s Infernal Devices Trilogy

Elizabeth Ho

9 Intertextuality, Adaptation, or Fan Fiction? April Lindner and the Brontë Sisters

Nicole Wilson

10 Growing Up Empowered by Jane: An Examination of Jane Eyre in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Anah-Jayne Markland

11 Canon for the Cradle: Materiality and Commodity in Board Book Retellings of Victorian Novels

Sara K. Day

12 Uptops and Sooties: Neo-Victorian Representations of Race and Class in Gail Carriger’s Finishing School Books

Jessica Durgan

Afterword

Eden Unger Bowditch

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sonya Sawyer Fritz is an associate professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas. Her work has appeared in Neo-Victorian Studies, Girlhood Studies, and several essay collections.

Sara K. Day is an assistant professor of English at Truman State University and the author of Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Fiction. She has also served as associate editor of the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly and co-editor (with Miranda Green-Barteet and Amy. L Montz) of Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction.