Full Description
Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives examines the neo-Victorian themes and motifs currently appearing in young adult fiction—specifically addressing the themes of authorship, sexuality, and criminality in the context of the Victorian age in British and American cultures. This book explicates the complicated relationship between the Victorian past and the turn to Victorian modes of thought on literature, history, and morality. Additionally, Sarah E. Maier aims to determine if the appeal of neo-Victorian young adult fiction rests in or resists nostalgia, parody, and revision. Given the overwhelming prevalence of the Victorian in the young adult genres of biofiction, juvenile writings, gothic, sensation, mystery, and crime fiction, there is much to investigate in terms of the friction between the past and the present.
Contents
Chapter 1. Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives.- Chapter 2. Re/Articulated Monstrosity: Mary and her Creature.- Chapter 3. Mash(ed) Up: Maidens, Monsters, and Mad Scientists.- Chapter 4. Illustrative Genii: The Brontës' Genius.- Chapter 5. The Odd(est) Brontë: Portrait(s) of Emily as a Young Author.- Chapter 6. Irregulars: Sherlockian Youth as Outsiders.- Chapter 7. The Mis(s) Education of Young Women.- Chapter 8. Deviant Young Womanhood: Liminal Queerness, Mad Femininity, and Spectral Subjectivity.- Chapter 9. Things Yet Undone: Encountering the Past through the Present.
