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.

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• AcknowledgmentsForewordClaudia NelsonIntroductionSonya Sawyer Fritz and Sara K. Day1 "The great change in human history": The Recasting of the Fall of Man as the Crisis of Faith in His Dark MaterialsBrett Carol Young2 "What’s in the Empty Flat?": Specular Identity and Authorship in Neil Gaiman’s CoralineMaryna Matlock3 In Space No One Can Hear You Cry: Late-Victorian Adventure and Contemporary Boyhood in Disney’s Treasure PlanetSonya Sawyer Fritz4 Are We Not (Wo)Men?: Gender and Animality in Contemporary Young Adult Retellings of H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. MoreauAmy Hicks5 Steampunk Kim: The Neo-Victorian Cosmopolitan Child in Philip Reeve’s LarklightChamutal Noimann6 The Dangerous Alphabet and the Dark Side of Victorian DomesticityA. Robin Hoffman7 Return of the Dapper Men and the Nonsense of Neo-Victorian LiteratureVictoria Ford Smith8 Asian Masculinity, Eurasian Identity, and Whiteness in Cassandra Clare’s Infernal Devices TrilogyElizabeth Ho9 Intertextuality, Adaptation, or Fan Fiction? April Lindner and the Brontë SistersNicole Wilson10 Growing Up Empowered by Jane: An Examination of Jane Eyre in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureAnah-Jayne Markland11 Canon for the Cradle: Materiality and Commodity in Board Book Retellings of Victorian NovelsSara K. Day12 Uptops and Sooties: Neo-Victorian Representations of Race and Class in Gail Carriger’s Finishing School BooksJessica DurganAfterwordEden Unger BowditchNotes on ContributorsIndex

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.

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• AcknowledgmentsForewordClaudia NelsonIntroductionSonya Sawyer Fritz and Sara K. Day1 "The great change in human history": The Recasting of the Fall of Man as the Crisis of Faith in His Dark MaterialsBrett Carol Young2 "What’s in the Empty Flat?": Specular Identity and Authorship in Neil Gaiman’s CoralineMaryna Matlock3 In Space No One Can Hear You Cry: Late-Victorian Adventure and Contemporary Boyhood in Disney’s Treasure PlanetSonya Sawyer Fritz4 Are We Not (Wo)Men?: Gender and Animality in Contemporary Young Adult Retellings of H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. MoreauAmy Hicks5 Steampunk Kim: The Neo-Victorian Cosmopolitan Child in Philip Reeve’s LarklightChamutal Noimann6 The Dangerous Alphabet and the Dark Side of Victorian DomesticityA. Robin Hoffman7 Return of the Dapper Men and the Nonsense of Neo-Victorian LiteratureVictoria Ford Smith8 Asian Masculinity, Eurasian Identity, and Whiteness in Cassandra Clare’s Infernal Devices TrilogyElizabeth Ho9 Intertextuality, Adaptation, or Fan Fiction? April Lindner and the Brontë SistersNicole Wilson10 Growing Up Empowered by Jane: An Examination of Jane Eyre in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureAnah-Jayne Markland11 Canon for the Cradle: Materiality and Commodity in Board Book Retellings of Victorian NovelsSara K. Day12 Uptops and Sooties: Neo-Victorian Representations of Race and Class in Gail Carriger’s Finishing School BooksJessica DurganAfterwordEden Unger BowditchNotes on ContributorsIndex

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.

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• AcknowledgmentsForewordClaudia NelsonIntroductionSonya Sawyer Fritz and Sara K. Day1 "The great change in human history": The Recasting of the Fall of Man as the Crisis of Faith in His Dark MaterialsBrett Carol Young2 "What’s in the Empty Flat?": Specular Identity and Authorship in Neil Gaiman’s CoralineMaryna Matlock3 In Space No One Can Hear You Cry: Late-Victorian Adventure and Contemporary Boyhood in Disney’s Treasure PlanetSonya Sawyer Fritz4 Are We Not (Wo)Men?: Gender and Animality in Contemporary Young Adult Retellings of H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. MoreauAmy Hicks5 Steampunk Kim: The Neo-Victorian Cosmopolitan Child in Philip Reeve’s LarklightChamutal Noimann6 The Dangerous Alphabet and the Dark Side of Victorian DomesticityA. Robin Hoffman7 Return of the Dapper Men and the Nonsense of Neo-Victorian LiteratureVictoria Ford Smith8 Asian Masculinity, Eurasian Identity, and Whiteness in Cassandra Clare’s Infernal Devices TrilogyElizabeth Ho9 Intertextuality, Adaptation, or Fan Fiction? April Lindner and the Brontë SistersNicole Wilson10 Growing Up Empowered by Jane: An Examination of Jane Eyre in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureAnah-Jayne Markland11 Canon for the Cradle: Materiality and Commodity in Board Book Retellings of Victorian NovelsSara K. Day12 Uptops and Sooties: Neo-Victorian Representations of Race and Class in Gail Carriger’s Finishing School BooksJessica DurganAfterwordEden Unger BowditchNotes on ContributorsIndex