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

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The Victorian Era in Twenty First Century Children   s and Adolescent Literature and Culture
Author : Sara K. Day
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Publisher : Routledge
Language : English
Release Date : 19 January 2018
ISBN : 9781351376273
Pages : 252 pages
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The Victorian Era in Twenty First Century Children s and Adolescent Literature and Culture by Sara K. Day Book PDF Summary

Victorian literature for audiences of all ages provides a broad foundation upon which to explore complex and evolving ideas about young people. In turn, this collection argues, contemporary works for young people that draw on Victorian literature and culture ultimately reflect our own disruptions and upheavals, particularly as they relate to child and adolescent readers and our experiences of them. The essays therein suggest that we struggle now, as the Victorians did then, to assert a cohesive understanding of young readers, and that this lack of cohesion is a result of or a parallel to the disruptions taking place on a larger (even global) scale.

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

Victorian literature for audiences of all ages provides a broad foundation upon which to explore complex and evolving ideas about young people. In turn, this collection argues, contemporary works for young people that draw on Victorian literature and culture ultimately reflect our own disruptions and upheavals, particularly as they relate

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