Young Adult Gothic Fiction

Michelle J. Smith is Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Kristine Moruzi is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

• AcknowledgementsNote on Contributors1. Introduction: Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. SmithSection 1: Genre Trouble: Gothic Hybrids2. Zombies Vs Unicorns: An Exploration of the Pleasures of the Gothic for Young Adults - Patricia Kennon3. Genre Mutation and the Dialectic of YA Gothic Dystopia in Holly Black’s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown - Bill HughesSection 2: Rewriting the Historical Gothic4. ‘Vanguard taste and fashion spirit’: Feminist Responses to Twenty-First Century, Western Zeitgeist in Vampire Romeo and Juliet texts - Sarah Olive5. The Pre-Monstrous Mad Scientist and the Post-Nerd Smart Girl in Kenneth Oppel’s Frankenstein Series - Sean P. Connors and Lissette Lopez Szwydky6. Rock Star Rochester and Heartthrob Heathcliff: The Problematic Redemption of the Byronic Hero in Recent Young Adult Retellings of Brontë Novels - Sara K. DaySection 3: Gothic Places7. Monstrous Islands: Spatiality and the Abjection of Motherhood in Gothic Young Adult Fiction - Cecilia Rogers8. Adolescence Adrift: The Lost Child in Contemporary Australian Gothic YA Fiction - Adam KealleySection 4: The Human and the Non-Human9. Accepting Monsters: The Visual Gothic in I Kill Giants and A Monster Calls - Debra Dudek10. Unhuman Entanglement: Onto-Ethics and the Fiction of Frances Hardinge - Chloé Germaine Buckley11. Black and White and Read All Over: Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, Gothic Imagery and Posthuman Publishing - Jen HarrisonSection 5: Gothic Femininities12. Testimony from Beyond the Grave: Comparing Girls’ Narratives of Sexual Violence and Death in Gothic Fiction - Lenise Prater13. Young Adult Gothic Fairy Tales and Terrifying Romance - Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi

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