Young Adult Gothic Fiction

Description

This collection is the first to focus exclusively on twenty-first-century young adult Gothic fiction. The essays demonstrate how the contemporary resurgence of the Gothic signals anxieties about (and hopes for) young people in the twenty-first century. Changing conceptions of young adults as liminal figures, operating between the modes of child and adult, can be mobilised when combined with Gothic spaces and concepts in texts for young people. In young adult Gothic literature, the crossing of boundaries typical of the Gothic is often motivated by a heterosexual romance plot, in which the human or monstrous female protagonist desires a boy who is not her ‘type’. Additionally, as the Gothic works to define what it means to be human – particularly in relation to gender, race, and identity – the volume also examines how contemporary shifts and flashpoints in identity politics are being negotiated under the metaphoric cloak of monstrosity.

Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors
1. Introduction: Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith
Section 1: Genre Trouble: Gothic Hybrids
2. Zombies Vs Unicorns: An Exploration of the Pleasures of the Gothic for Young Adults - Patricia Kennon
3. Genre Mutation and the Dialectic of YA Gothic Dystopia in Holly Black’s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown - Bill Hughes
Section 2: Rewriting the Historical Gothic
4. ‘Vanguard taste and fashion spirit’: Feminist Responses to Twenty-First Century, Western Zeitgeist in Vampire Romeo and Juliet texts - Sarah Olive
5. The Pre-Monstrous Mad Scientist and the Post-Nerd Smart Girl in Kenneth Oppel’s Frankenstein Series - Sean P. Connors and Lissette Lopez Szwydky
6. Rock Star Rochester and Heartthrob Heathcliff: The Problematic Redemption of the Byronic Hero in Recent Young Adult Retellings of Brontë Novels - Sara K. Day
Section 3: Gothic Places
7. Monstrous Islands: Spatiality and the Abjection of Motherhood in Gothic Young Adult Fiction - Cecilia Rogers
8. Adolescence Adrift: The Lost Child in Contemporary Australian Gothic YA Fiction - Adam Kealley
Section 4: The Human and the Non-Human
9. Accepting Monsters: The Visual Gothic in I Kill Giants and A Monster Calls - Debra Dudek
10. Unhuman Entanglement: Onto-Ethics and the Fiction of Frances Hardinge - Chloé Germaine Buckley
11. Black and White and Read All Over: Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, Gothic Imagery and Posthuman Publishing - Jen Harrison
Section 5: Gothic Femininities
12. Testimony from Beyond the Grave: Comparing Girls’ Narratives of Sexual Violence and Death in Gothic Fiction - Lenise Prater
13. Young Adult Gothic Fairy Tales and Terrifying Romance - Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• 21st century
• Romance
• Gothic

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 juin 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786837523
• Langue: English

Extrait

YOUNG ADULT GOTHIC FICTION
SERIES PREFACE
Gothic Literary Studies is dedicated to publishing groundbreaking scholarship on Gothic in literature and film. The Gothic, which has been subjected to a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, is a form which plays an important role in our understanding of literary, intellectual and cultural histories. The series seeks to promote challenging and innovative approaches to Gothic which question any aspect of the Gothic tradition or perceived critical orthodoxy. Volumes in the series explore how issues such as gender, religion, nation and sexuality have shaped our view of the Gothic tradition. Both academically rigorous and informed by the latest developments in critical theory, the series provides an important focus for scholarly developments in Gothic studies, literary studies, cultural studies and critical theory. The series will be of interest to students of all levels and to scholars and teachers of the Gothic and literary and cultural histories.
SERIES EDITORS
Andrew Smith, University of Sheffield Benjamin F. Fisher, University of Mississippi
EDITORIAL BOARD
Kent Ljungquist, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Massachusetts
Richard Fusco, St Joseph’s University, Philadelphia
David Punter, University of Bristol
Chris Baldick, University of London
Angela Wright, University of Sheffield
Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona
Young Adult Gothic Fiction
Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others
Edited by
Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi
© The Contributors, 2021
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Cover image: Detra, Love is colder than Death (2009). By permission.
C ONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction
Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith
Section One Genre Trouble: Gothic Hybrids
2. Zombies vs. Unicorns : An Exploration of the Pleasures of the Gothic for Young Adults
Patricia Kennon
3. Genre Mutation in Young Adult Gothic: The Dialectics of Dystopia and Romance in Holly Black’s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Bill Hughes
Section Two Rewriting the Historical Gothic
4. ‘Vanguard taste and fashion spirit’: Feminist Responses to Twenty-First Century, Western Zeitgeist in Vampire Romeo and Juliet Texts
Sarah Olive
5. The Pre-Monstrous Mad Scientist and the Post-Nerd Smart Girl in Kenneth Oppel’s Frankenstein Series
Sean P. Connors and Lissette Lopez Szwydky
6. Rock Star Rochester and Heart-throb Heathcliff: The Problematic Redemption of the Byronic Hero in Recent Young Adult Retellings of Brontë Novels
Sara K. Day
Section Three Gothic Places
7. Monstrous Islands: Spatiality and the Abjection of Motherhood in Gothic Young Adult Fiction
Cecilia Rogers
8. ‘A Strange Madness’: The Lost Child in Contemporary Australian Gothic Young Adult Fiction
Adam Kealley
Section Four The Human and the Non-Human
9. Accepting Monsters: Multimodal Gothic in I Kill Giants and A Monster Calls
Debra Dudek
10. Unhuman Entanglement: Ontoethics and Frances Hardinge’s Gothic Fiction
Chloé Germaine Buckley
11. Black and White and Read All Over: Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children , Gothic Imagery and Post-human Publishing
Jennifer Harrison
Section Five Gothic Femininities
12. Testimony from Beyond the Grave: Comparing Girls’ Narratives of Sexual Violence and Death in Gothic Fiction
Lenise Prater
13. Young Adult Gothic Fairy Tales and Terrifying Romance
Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi
 
Bibliography
Notes
A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
With thanks to Dr Victoria Tedeschi for her meticulous editorial assistance in preparing this manuscript for submission.
N OTES ON C ONTRIBUTORS
Sean P. Connors is an associate professor of English education at the University of Arkansas. His scholarship and teaching focuses on the application of diverse critical perspectives to young adult (YA) literature. He is the editor of The Politics of Panem: Challenging Genres , a collection of critical essays about the Hunger Games series, and co-editor of Teaching Girls on Fire: Essays on Dystopian Young Adult Literature in the Classroom .
Sara K. Day is an assistant professor of English at Truman State University, where she teaches classes in children’s and YA literature, popular literature, and film. She is the author of Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature , and the co-editor of two essay collections, Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Literature (with Miranda A. Green-Barteet and Amy L. Montz) and The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture (with Sonya Sawyer Fritz). She is also the editor of the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly . Her current research projects include an examination of gender-swapped Sherlocks in recent YA literature.
Debra Dudek is an associate professor in the English programme at Edith Cowan University. She has published internationally on visual and verbal texts for young people, including picture books, graphic novels, television, film and novels. She is particularly interested in how texts for young people engage with social justice issues, and a focus on love and ethics informs her research more generally. Her research has been published in journals such as Papers , Jeunesse , Children’s Literature in Education , Ariel , Canadian Review of Comparative Literature and Overland ; in books including Keywords for Children’s Literature (NYU Press, 2011), Seriality and Young People’s Texts (Palgrave 2014) and Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults (Routledge, 2017); and in her single-authored monograph The Beloved Does Not Bite: Moral Vampires and the Humans Who Love Them (Routledge, 2017).
Chloé Germaine Buckley is a senior lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University. She teaches courses on Gothic cinema, children’s and YA literature. Her book Twenty-First-Century Children’s Gothic Fiction: From Wanderer to Nomadic Subject (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) explores twenty-first-century children’s Gothic literature and film. She has also published articles and book chapters on zombies, weird fiction, postcolonial Gothic, witches and games. She is a member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies – where she works on participatory youth projects – and the Manchester Games Studies Network.
Jen Harrison is an instructor of English at East Stroudsburg University, where she teaches English literature, composition and creative writing. She earned her PhD in children’s literature from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Jen’s research focuses on three primary areas in the field of children’s and YA literature: environmental studies, post-humanism and materialism; she is particularly interested in children’s non-fiction, children’s publishing and the intersections between fiction and social media. She is an editor for the peer-reviewed journal Jeunesse , as well as a long-time reviewer for the review website, The Children’s Book Review . She also produces an academic blog on the subject of children’s literature, entitled The Worrisome Words Blog . She is currently working on an edited collection on Winnie-the-Pooh for the University Press of Mississippi, and has recently published a book on post-humanism and the environment in YA dystopia with Lexington Books.
Bill Hughes was awarded his PhD on communicative rationality and the Enlightenment dialogue in relation to the formation of the English novel at the Department of English Literature in the University of Sheffield in 2010. His research interests are in eighteenth-century literature; cultural and literary theory, particularly the Bakhtin circle and the Frankfurt school; genre theory; aesthetics; intertextuality; and the Gothic. He is co-founder with Dr Sam George of the Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture Project at the University of Hertfordshire, which has conducted research and published on YA Gothic and paranormal romance ( www.opengravesopenminds.com ). With Dr George, Bill has edited the collections Open Graves, Open Minds: Representations of Vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the Present Day (2013), In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves, and Wild Children (2020) and two special issues of Gothic Studies (2013 and 2019).
Adam Kealley is a graduate student and sessional academic undertaking a PhD as part of a collaboration between Curtin University, Western Australia and the University of Aberdeen. His thesis explores the haunted condition of the contemporary queer YA subject. He was awarded the 2016 Children’s Literature in Education Emerging Scholar Award fo