Irregular Readers. Arthur Conan Doyle’s “six dirty scoundrels”, Boyhood and Literacy in Contemporary Sherlockian Children’s Literature
Young adult (YA) literature is a socialising genre that encourages young readers to take up particular ways of relating to historical or cultural materials. The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a boom in Sherlockian YA fiction using the Conan Doyle canon as a context and vocabular...
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doaj-118acd0c5559474c96232c23f2a2e2c52020-11-25T03:12:43ZdanSvenska BarnboksinstitutetBarnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning0347-772X2000-43892014-04-013710.14811/clr.v37i0.167Irregular Readers. Arthur Conan Doyle’s “six dirty scoundrels”, Boyhood and Literacy in Contemporary Sherlockian Children’s LiteratureErica Hateley Young adult (YA) literature is a socialising genre that encourages young readers to take up particular ways of relating to historical or cultural materials. The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a boom in Sherlockian YA fiction using the Conan Doyle canon as a context and vocabulary for stories focused on the Baker Street Irregulars as figures of identification. This paper reads YA fiction’s deployment of Conan Doyle’s fictional universe as a strategy for negotiating anxieties of adolescent masculinity, particularly in relation to literacy and social agency. Keywords: Young adult literature; detective fiction; masculinity; literacy; adolescence; intertextuality https://www.barnboken.net/index.php/clr/article/view/167Young adult literaturedetective fictionmasculinityliteracyadolescenceintertextuality |
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Irregular Readers. Arthur Conan Doyle’s “six dirty scoundrels”, Boyhood and Literacy in Contemporary Sherlockian Children’s Literature |
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Irregular Readers. Arthur Conan Doyle’s “six dirty scoundrels”, Boyhood and Literacy in Contemporary Sherlockian Children’s Literature |
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irregular readers. arthur conan doyle’s “six dirty scoundrels”, boyhood and literacy in contemporary sherlockian children’s literature |
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Svenska Barnboksinstitutet |
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Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning |
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0347-772X 2000-4389 |
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2014-04-01 |
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Young adult (YA) literature is a socialising genre that encourages young readers to take up particular ways of relating to historical or cultural materials. The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a boom in Sherlockian YA fiction using the Conan Doyle canon as a context and vocabulary for stories focused on the Baker Street Irregulars as figures of identification. This paper reads YA fiction’s deployment of Conan Doyle’s fictional universe as a strategy for negotiating anxieties of adolescent masculinity, particularly in relation to literacy and social agency.
Keywords: Young adult literature; detective fiction; masculinity; literacy;
adolescence; intertextuality
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Young adult literature detective fiction masculinity literacy adolescence intertextuality |
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