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
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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