Adaptation in Young Adult Novels

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).

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.

• Acknowledgments“Both Flesh and Monument”: The Immortal Life of Literature through AdaptationDana E. Lawrence (University of South Carolina Lancaster, USA) and Amy L. Montz (University of Southern Indiana, USA)Part One Representation Matters1. Re-visioning Rosaline; or, Romeo and Juliet Are DeadFiona 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 GreatLisa 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 AdultsSaffyre Falkenberg (Texas Christian University, USA)Part Two Literature and Popular Culture6. Jane Eyre in Space: Adapting Brontë’s Novel for Young Adult Fans of Sci-Fi and FantasyTara 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 FranchiseMelanie A. Marotta (Morgan State University, USA)8. Austen, Wollstonecraft, and Zombies: Female Autonomy in Jane Austen’s Popular CanonEileen 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 AudienceMichelle Anya Anjirbag and Madeleine Hunter (Cambridge University, UK)Part Three Making the Past Present10. Rewriting Nineteenth-Century New York City for the Modern TeenAmy L. Montz (University of Southern Indiana, USA)11. Find Our Past Voice: Reimagining the Nineteenth-Century Feminist in Young Adult LiteratureBrett 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 FireMaya Zakrzewska-Pim (Cambridge University, UK)13. “In fair Verona, where we lay our scene”: Adaptation, Literary Tourism, and Locating JulietDana E. Lawrence (University of South Carolina Lancaster, USA)14. From Ancient to Modern Myth: Storytelling in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the BonesMadeleine Tulip (Warwick University, UK)Notes on ContributorsIndex