Reading Young Adult Literature: A Critical Introduction
  • Publication Date: October 1, 2024
  • ISBN: 9781554815852 / 1554815851
  • 300 pages; 6" x 9"

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Reading Young Adult Literature: A Critical Introduction

  • Publication Date: October 1, 2024
  • ISBN: 9781554815852 / 1554815851
  • 300 pages; 6" x 9"

Reading Young Adult Literature is the most current, comprehensive, and accessible guide to this burgeoning genre, tracing its history and reception with nuance and respect. Unlike any other book on the market, it synthesizes current thinking on key issues in the field and presents new research and original analyses of the history of adolescence, the genealogy of YA literature, key genres and modes of writing for young adults, and ways to put YA in dialogue with canonical texts from the high school classroom.

Reading Young Adult Literature speaks to the core concerns of contemporary English studies with its attention to literary history, literary form, and theoretical approaches to YA. Ideal for education courses on Young Adult Literature, it offers prolonged attention to YA literature in the secondary classroom and cutting-edge approaches to critical visual and multimodal literacy. The book is also highly appealing for library science courses, offering an illuminating history of YA Librarianship and a practical overview of the YA field.

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Historicizing Youth, Adolescents, and Teens
  • Chapter 2: Adolescent Literature, the Junior Novel, and the Pre-History of YA
  • Chapter 3: Realism and the YA Novel
  • Chapter 4: Speculative Realms: YA Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dystopias, and Horror
  • Chapter 5: Young Adult Literature at the Cutting Edge: Hybrid and Experimental Genres, Multimodal YA, and Fandom Culture
  • Chapter 6: YA in Conversation with the Classics

Carrie Hintz is Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY. Eric Tribunella is Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi.