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The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture

2018-01-19 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture by : Sonya Sawyer Fritz

Download or read book The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture written by Sonya Sawyer Fritz. This book was released on 2018-01-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Victorian Period in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture

2018-01-19 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Victorian Period in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture by : Sara K. Day

Download or read book The Victorian Period in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture written by Sara K. Day. This book was released on 2018-01-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral

2023-07-10 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2023-07-10
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Book Synopsis Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral by : Denise Burkhard

Download or read book Exploited, Empowered, Ephemeral written by Denise Burkhard. This book was released on 2023-07-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood in neo-Victorian fiction for both child and adult readers is an extremely multifaceted and fascinating field. This book argues that neo-Victorian fiction projects multiple, competing visions of childhood and suggests that they can be analysed by means of a typology, the 'childhood scale', which provides different categories along the lines of power relations, and literary possible-worlds theory. The usefulness of both is exemplified by detailed discussions of Philippa Pearce's "Tom's Midnight Garden" (1958), Eva Ibbotson's "Journey to the River Sea" (2001), Sarah Waters' "Fingersmith" (2002) and Dianne Setterfield's "The Thirteenth Tale" (2006).

Charles Dickens and the Victorian Child

2013-02-11 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2013-02-11
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Book Synopsis Charles Dickens and the Victorian Child by : Amberyl Malkovich

Download or read book Charles Dickens and the Victorian Child written by Amberyl Malkovich. This book was released on 2013-02-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ideas of children and childhood, and the construct of the ‘ideal’ Victorian child, that developed rapidly over the Victorian era along with literacy and reading material for the emerging mass reading public. Children’s Literature was one of the developing areas for publishers and readers alike, yet this did not stop the reading public from bringing home works not expressly intended for children and reading to their family. Within the idealized middle class family circle, authors such as Charles Dickens were read and appreciated by members of all ages. By examining some of Dickens’s works that contain the imperfect child, and placing them alongside works by Kingsley, MacDonald, Stretton, Rossetti, and Nesbit, Malkovich considers the construction, romanticization, and socialization of the Victorian child within work read by and for children during the Victorian Era and early Edwardian period. These authors use elements of religion, death, irony, fairy worlds, gender, and class to illustrate the need for the ideal child and yet the impossibility of such a construct. Malkovich contends that the ‘imperfect’ child more readily reflects reality, whereas the ‘ideal’ child reflects an unattainable fantasy and while debates rage over how to define children’s literature, such children, though somewhat changed, can still be found in the most popular of literatures read by children contemporarily.

Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century

2016-08-24 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2016-08-24
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Book Synopsis Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century by : Katie Kapurch

Download or read book Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century written by Katie Kapurch. This book was released on 2016-08-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines melodramatic impulses in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga, as well as the series' film adaptations and fan-authored texts. Attention to conventions such as crying, victimization, and happy endings in the context of the Twilight-Jane Eyre relationship reveals melodrama as an empowering mode of communication for girls. Although melodrama has saturated popular culture since the nineteenth century, its expression in texts for, about, and by girls has been remarkably under theorized. By defining melodrama, however, through its Victorian lineages, Katie Kapurch recognizes melodrama's aesthetic form and rhetorical function in contemporary girl culture while also demonstrating its legacy since the nineteenth century. Informed by feminist theories of literature and film, Kapurch shows how melodrama is worthy of serious consideration since the mode critiques limiting social constructions of postfeminist girlhood and, at the same time, enhances intimacy between girls—both characters and readers.

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