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Author:   Dr. Dana E. Lawrence (University of South Carolina Lancaster, USA) ,  Dr. Amy L. Montz (University of Southern Indiana, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
ISBN:  

9781501371950

ISBN 10:   1501371959
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   24 March 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Acknowledgments “Both Flesh and Monument”: The Immortal Life of Literature through Adaptation Dana E. Lawrence (University of South Carolina Lancaster, USA) and Amy L. Montz (University of Southern Indiana, USA) Part One Representation Matters 1. Re-visioning Rosaline; or, Romeo and Juliet Are Dead Fiona Hartley-Kroeger (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA) 2. Inhabiting the House of Edith Wharton’s Fiction: Rewriting the Captive Woman in Deborah Noyes’s The Ghosts of Kerfol Indu Ohri (University of Virginia, USA) 3. Rewriting The Great Gatsby: Questioning Identity and Morality in Sara Benincasa’s Great Lisa M. Valenzuela (University of the Incarnate Word, USA) 4. LGBTQIA Fairy Tales: Queering Cinderella in Lo’s Ash and Donoghue’s ""The Tale of the Shoe"" Dalila Forni (University of Florence, Italy) 5. “Wherever the Flame Was Brightest”: Identity and Assimilation in Rick Riordan’s Greek Mythological Adaptations for Young Adults Saffyre Falkenberg (Texas Christian University, USA) Part Two Literature and Popular Culture 6. Jane Eyre in Space: Adapting Brontë’s Novel for Young Adult Fans of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Tara Moore (Elizabethtown College, USA) 7. Megan Shepherd’s The Madwoman Trilogy and the Female Voice: The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Adaptation of Frankenstein and the Frankenstein Franchise Melanie A. Marotta (Morgan State University, USA) 8. Austen, Wollstonecraft, and Zombies: Female Autonomy in Jane Austen’s Popular Canon Eileen Totter (University of North Georgia, USA) 9. A Twist in Time or a Break in Narrative: Adapting the Disney Classic Canon for a Young Adult Audience Michelle Anya Anjirbag and Madeleine Hunter (Cambridge University, UK) Part Three Making the Past Present 10. Rewriting Nineteenth-Century New York City for the Modern Teen Amy L. Montz (University of Southern Indiana, USA) 11. Find Our Past Voice: Reimagining the Nineteenth-Century Feminist in Young Adult Literature Brett Carol Young (Valdosta State University, USA) 12. A Tale of Two Women: Representing Femininity in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities and Sarah Rees Brennan’s Tell the Wind and Fire Maya Zakrzewska-Pim (Cambridge University, UK) 13. “In fair Verona, where we lay our scene”: Adaptation, Literary Tourism, and Locating Juliet Dana E. Lawrence (University of South Carolina Lancaster, USA) 14. From Ancient to Modern Myth: Storytelling in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones Madeleine Tulip (Warwick University, UK) Notes on Contributors Index"

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Adaptation in Young Adult Novels offers valuable insights into the capacity of young adult adaptations to critically engage the past and present. It contributes a great deal to understandings of how and why canonical texts are adapted for a specifically young adult audience, and it is a valuable resource for furthering conversations about adaptation, adolescence, and responsible engagement with a problematic canon. * International Journal of Young Adult Literature * Adaptation in Young Adult Novels brings together for discussion an impressive range of recent texts inspired by classic works, demonstrating the literary canon's ongoing vitality and mapping areas--including gender roles, identity formation, and our relationship to social and geographical place--in which today's writers for young readers respond to and rewrite the past. * Claudia Nelson, Professor Emeritus of English, Texas A&M University, USA * Self-conscious about their own value, encouraging readers to find their own voices in the echo chamber of established classics: adaptations are more than guides to the original. Gauging the scope of this emancipatory cultural work, these essays combine state-of-the-art adaptation studies with perceptive analyses of texts, places, and franchises for young adults. * Anja Muller, Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Siegen, Germany * Dana E. Lawrence and Amy L. Montz have gathered together an exhilarating group of essays destined to become essential reading for scholars of young adult literature, literary history, and popular culture. YA adaptations of classic works emerge not only as a lively exploration of the past, but also as powerful challenges to the injustices and exclusions of that past. Young adult literature is revealed as a space of change for young readers who insist on a more inclusive and diverse world, and whose developing literacies inspire them as agents of change and creators in their own right. * Carrie Hintz, Associate Professor of English, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA *

Adaptation in Young Adult Novels offers valuable insights into the capacity of young adult adaptations to critically engage the past and present. It contributes a great deal to understandings of how and why canonical texts are adapted for a specifically young adult audience, and it is a valuable resource for furthering conversations about adaptation, adolescence, and responsible engagement with a problematic canon. * International Journal of Young Adult Literature * Adaptation in Young Adult Novels brings together for discussion an impressive range of recent texts inspired by classic works, demonstrating the literary canon’s ongoing vitality and mapping areas--including gender roles, identity formation, and our relationship to social and geographical place--in which today’s writers for young readers respond to and rewrite the past. * Claudia Nelson, Professor Emeritus of English, Texas A&M University, USA * Self-conscious about their own value, encouraging readers to find their own voices in the echo chamber of established classics: adaptations are more than guides to the original. Gauging the scope of this emancipatory cultural work, these essays combine state-of-the-art adaptation studies with perceptive analyses of texts, places, and franchises for young adults. * Anja Müller, Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Siegen, Germany * Dana E. Lawrence and Amy L. Montz have gathered together an exhilarating group of essays destined to become essential reading for scholars of young adult literature, literary history, and popular culture. YA adaptations of classic works emerge not only as a lively exploration of the past, but also as powerful challenges to the injustices and exclusions of that past. Young adult literature is revealed as a space of change for young readers who insist on a more inclusive and diverse world, and whose developing literacies inspire them as agents of change and creators in their own right. * Carrie Hintz, Associate Professor of English, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA *

Adaptation in Young Adult Novels brings together for discussion an impressive range of recent texts inspired by classic works, demonstrating the literary canon's ongoing vitality and mapping areas--including gender roles, identity formation, and our relationship to social and geographical place--in which today's writers for young readers respond to and rewrite the past. * Claudia Nelson, Professor Emeritus of English, Texas A&M University, USA * Self-conscious about their own value, encouraging readers to find their own voices in the echo chamber of established classics: adaptations are more than guides to the original. Gauging the scope of this emancipatory cultural work, these essays combine state-of-the-art adaptation studies with perceptive analyses of texts, places, and franchises for young adults. * Anja Muller, Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Siegen, Germany * Dana E. Lawrence and Amy L. Montz have gathered together an exhilarating group of essays destined to become essential reading for scholars of young adult literature, literary history, and popular culture. YA adaptations of classic works emerge not only as a lively exploration of the past, but also as powerful challenges to the injustices and exclusions of that past. Young adult literature is revealed as a space of change for young readers who insist on a more inclusive and diverse world, and whose developing literacies inspire them as agents of change and creators in their own right. * Carrie Hintz, Associate Professor of English, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA *

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Dana E. Lawrence is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Lancaster, USA. Amy L. Montz is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana, USA. She is co-editor of Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction (2014).

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