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

Sonya Sawyer Fritz is an associate professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas. Her work has appeared in Neo-Victorian Studies, Girlhood Studies, and several essay collections. Sara K. Day is an assistant professor of English at Truman State University and the author of Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Fiction. She has also served as associate editor of the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly and co-editor (with Miranda Green-Barteet and Amy. L Montz) of Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction.

• Acknowledgments Foreword Claudia Nelson Introduction Sonya Sawyer Fritz and Sara K. Day 1 The great change in human history: The Recasting of the Fall of Man as the Crisis of Faith in His Dark Materials Brett Carol Young 2 What’s in the Empty Flat?: Specular Identity and Authorship in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline Maryna Matlock 3 In Space No One Can Hear You Cry: Late-Victorian Adventure and Contemporary Boyhood in Disney’s Treasure Planet Sonya Sawyer Fritz 4 Are We Not (Wo)Men?: Gender and Animality in Contemporary Young Adult Retellings of H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau Amy Hicks 5 Steampunk Kim: The Neo-Victorian Cosmopolitan Child in Philip Reeve’s Larklight Chamutal Noimann 6 The Dangerous Alphabet and the Dark Side of Victorian Domesticity A. Robin Hoffman 7 Return of the Dapper Men and the Nonsense of Neo-Victorian Literature Victoria Ford Smith 8 Asian Masculinity, Eurasian Identity, and Whiteness in Cassandra Clare’s Infernal Devices Trilogy Elizabeth Ho 9 Intertextuality, Adaptation, or Fan Fiction? April Lindner and the Brontë Sisters Nicole Wilson 10 Growing Up Empowered by Jane: An Examination of Jane Eyre in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Young Adult Literature Anah-Jayne Markland 11 Canon for the Cradle: Materiality and Commodity in Board Book Retellings of Victorian Novels Sara K. Day 12 Uptops and Sooties: Neo-Victorian Representations of Race and Class in Gail Carriger’s Finishing School Books Jessica Durgan Afterword Eden Unger Bowditch Notes on Contributors Index