Young Adult Fantasy Fiction
Conventions, Originality, Reproducibility

Shows that the young adult fantasy genre is a dynamic formation that reshapes itself responsively in a continuing process over time.

Kim Wilkins (Author)

9781108445320, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 August 2019

75 pages
17.6 x 12.7 x 0.6 cm, 0.13 kg

Young adult fantasy (YA fantasy) brings together two established genres - young adult fiction and fantasy fiction - and in so doing amplifies, energises, and leverages the textual, social, and industrial practices of the two genres: combining the fantastic with adolescent concerns; engaging passionate online fandoms; proliferating quickly into series and related works. By considering the texts alongside the way they are circulated and marketed, this Element aims to show that the YA fantasy genre is a dynamic formation that takes shape and reshapes itself responsively in a continuing process over time.

Introduction – genre and YA fantasy
1. Conventions and the text
2. Originality and the social
3. Reproducibility and industry
Conclusion – creative, cultural, commercial.

Subject Areas: Fantasy & magical realism [Children's / Teenage YFH], Children’s & teenage literature studies [DSY], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: general [DSB]