Virginity in Young Adult Literature After Twilight

This book looks at how popular young adult literature fetishizes virginity. Christine Seifert examines how and why so much romance and dystopian fiction-the two most popular genres in YA lit-have focused on what she calls "abstinence porn"-a phenomenon that has broken out since the appearance of Twilight on the market.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: From Forever to Twilight
Chapter 2: Virginity and Sex in Paranormal Novels
Chapter 3: Virginity and Sex in the Dystopia
Chapter 4: Virginity and Sex in Contemporary Teen Romance
Chapter 5: Sex-Positive Messages in YA Literature
Chapter 6: Beyond Twilight
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Christine Seifert

Summary

This book looks at how popular young adult literature fetishizes virginity. Christine Seifert examines how and why so much romance and dystopian fiction-the two most popular genres in YA lit-have focused on what she calls "abstinence porn"-a phenomenon that has broken out since the appearance of Twilight on the market.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Seifert
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 0 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.01.2015
• EAN: 9781442246577
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-4657-7
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature; Studies in Young Adult Literat; Studies in Young Adult Literature
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general