Review: Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves / Monstrous Others, ed. by Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi

2025/01/01 by Jeff Fields McCormack · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Gothic Literature and Media Analysis #Themes in Literature Analysis #Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction

paper · pdf · doi:10.70138/nsvt7057

openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/12/17 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/06

Abstract

In Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves / Monstrous Others, editors Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi weave together a collection that examines “youth culture at a moment in the twenty-first century when ideas about young people are in considerable flux” (2). By exploring the “marked increase” in “Gothic themes of liminality, monstrosity, transgression, romance

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