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Zusatztext Dana E. Lawrence and Amy L. Montz have gathered together an exhilarating group of essays destined to become essential reading for scholars of young adult literature, literary history, and popular culture. YA adaptations of classic works emerge not only as a lively exploration of the past, but also as powerful challenges to the injustices and exclusions of that past. Young adult literature is revealed as a space of change for young readers who insist on a more inclusive and diverse world, and whose developing literacies inspire them as agents of change and creators in their own right. Informationen zum Autor Dana Lawrence is Associate Professor of English at University of South Carolina Lancaster, USA, where she teaches children’s literature, British literature, and first-year writing. Her research interests include adaptation studies, young adult literature, Shakespeare, and literary tourism. Amy L. Montz is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana, USA, where she works on 18th- and 19th-century British literature, young adult literature, and material culture. She is co-editor of Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction (2014). Zusammenfassung Adaptation in Young Adult Novels argues that adapting classic and canonical literature and historical places engages young adult readers with their cultural past and encourages them to see how that past can be rewritten. The textual afterlives of classic texts raise questions for new readers: What can be changed? What benefits from change? How can you, too, be agents of change?The contributors to this volume draw on a wide range of contemporary novels – from Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series and Megan Shepherd's Madman's Daughter trilogy to Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones – adapted from mythology, fairy tales, historical places, and the literary classics of Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others. Unpacking the new perspectives and critiques of gender, sexuality, and the cultural values of adolescents inherent to each adaptation, the essays in this volume make the case that literary adaptations are just as valuable as original works and demonstrate how the texts studied empower young readers to become more culturally, historically, and socially aware through the lens of literary diversity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments “Both Flesh and Monument”: The Immortal Life of Literature through Adaptation Dana E. Lawrence (University of South Carolina Lancaster, USA) and Amy L. Montz (University of Southern Indiana, USA) Part One Representation Matters 1. Re-visioning Rosaline; or, Romeo and Juliet Are Dead Fiona 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 Great Lisa 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 Adults Saffyre Falkenberg (Texas Christian University, USA) Part Two Literature and Popular Culture 6. Jane Eyre in Space: Adapting Brontë’s Novel for Young Adult Fans of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Tara 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 Franchise Melanie A. Marotta (Morgan State University, USA) 8. Austen, Wollstonecraft, and Zombies: ...
