The Victorian era in twenty-first century children's and adolescent literature and culture
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The Victorian era in twenty-first century children's and adolescent literature and culture
(Children's literature and culture / Jack Zipes, series editor)
Routledge, 2018
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The Victorian era in 21st century children's and adolescent literature and culture
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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 Bronte 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
by "Nielsen BookData"