Young Adult Gothic Fiction (eBook)

This collection will be suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors
1. Introduction: Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith
Section 1: Genre Trouble: Gothic Hybrids
2. Zombies Vs Unicorns: An Exploration of the Pleasures of the Gothic for Young Adults - Patricia Kennon
3. Genre Mutation and the Dialectic of YA Gothic Dystopia in Holly Black’s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown - Bill Hughes
Section 2: Rewriting the Historical Gothic
4. ‘Vanguard taste and fashion spirit’: Feminist Responses to Twenty-First Century, Western Zeitgeist in Vampire Romeo and Juliet texts - Sarah Olive
5. The Pre-Monstrous Mad Scientist and the Post-Nerd Smart Girl in Kenneth Oppel’s Frankenstein Series - Sean P. Connors and Lissette Lopez Szwydky
6. Rock Star Rochester and Heartthrob Heathcliff: The Problematic Redemption of the Byronic Hero in Recent Young Adult Retellings of Brontë Novels - Sara K. Day
Section 3: Gothic Places
7. Monstrous Islands: Spatiality and the Abjection of Motherhood in Gothic Young Adult Fiction - Cecilia Rogers
8. Adolescence Adrift: The Lost Child in Contemporary Australian Gothic YA Fiction - Adam Kealley
Section 4: The Human and the Non-Human
9. Accepting Monsters: The Visual Gothic in I Kill Giants and A Monster Calls - Debra Dudek
10. Unhuman Entanglement: Onto-Ethics and the Fiction of Frances Hardinge - Chloé Germaine Buckley
11. Black and White and Read All Over: Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, Gothic Imagery and Posthuman Publishing - Jen Harrison
Section 5: Gothic Femininities
12. Testimony from Beyond the Grave: Comparing Girls’ Narratives of Sexual Violence and Death in Gothic Fiction - Lenise Prater
13. Young Adult Gothic Fairy Tales and Terrifying Romance - Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi