| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) : text file, PDF |
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Children's literature and culture |
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Children's literature and culture.
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| Contents |
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 -- What's in the empty flat?: specular identity and authorship in Neil Gaiman's Coraline / Maryna Matlock -- In space no one can hear your cry: late Victorian adventure and contemporary boyhood in Disney's Treasure Island / Sonya Sawyer Fritz -- 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 -- Steampunk Kim: the neo-Victorian cosmopolitan child in Philip Reeve's Larklight / Chamutal Noimann -- The Dangerous Alphabet and the dark side of Victorian domesticity / A. Robin Hoffman -- Return of the Dapper Men and the nonsense of neo-victorian literature / Victoria Ford Smith -- Asian masculinity, Eurasian identity, and whiteness in Cassandra Clare's Infernal Devices trilogy / Elizabeth Ho -- Intertextuality, adaptation, or fanfiction? April Lindner and the Bronte sisters / Nicole L. Wilson -- Growing up empowered by Jane: an examination of Jane Eyre in twenty-first-century children's and young adult literature / Anah-Jayne Markland -- Canon for the cradle: materiality and commodity in board book retelling of Victorian novels / Sara K. Day -- Uptops and sooties: neo-Victorian representations of race and class in Gail Garriger's Finishing School books / Jessica Durgan -- Afterword: reclaiming The ghost in the machine / Eden Unger Bowditch |
| Summary |
"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 therein 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."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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 |
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Print version record |
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Children's literature, English -- History and criticism
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Young adult literature, English -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Great Britain -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Children's literature, English.
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English literature.
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Young adult literature, English.
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Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Fritz, Sonya Sawyer, editor.
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Day, Sara K., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781315147529 |
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1315147521 |
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