Young Adult Gothic Fiction : Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others Hardback
Edited by Michelle Smith, Kristine Moruzi
Part of the Gothic Literary Studies series
Hardback
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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages, No
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2021
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- ISBN:9781786837509
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages, No
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781786837509
