Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives

Maier, Sarah E.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2024-02-03

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783031472947

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-47295-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 218