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"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."-- 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 Donoguhue'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 Bronte'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: Female Autonomy in Jane Austen's Popular Canon Eileen Totter (University of North Georgia, USA) -- 9. A Twist in Time or a Break in Narrative: Adapting the Disney Classic Canon for a Young Adult Audience Michelle Anya Anjirbag and Madeleine Hunter (Cambridge University, UK) Part Three: Making the Past Present -- 10. Rewriting Nineteenth-Century New York City for the Modern Teen Amy L. Montz (University of Southern Indiana, USA) -- 11. Find Our Past Voice: Reimagining the Nineteenth-Century Feminist in Young Adult Literature Brett Carol Young (Valdosta State University, USA) -- 12. A Tale of Two Women: Representing Femininity in Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities and Sarah Rees Brennan's Tell the Wind and Fire Maya Zakrzewska-Pim (Cambridge University, UK) -- 13. 'In fair Verona, where we lay our scene': Adaptation, Literary Tourism, and Authority Dana E. Lawrence (University of South Carolina Lancaster, USA) -- 14. From Ancient to Modern Myth: Storytelling in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones Madeleine Tulip (Warwick University, UK). Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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