"TWILIGHT" IS NOT GOOD FOR MAIDENS: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND THE FAMILY IN STEPHENIE MEYER'S "TWILIGHT" SERIES

Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market" Although I regularly teach children's and young adult literature to undergraduate students, it took my son's babysitter to alert me to the phenomenon of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga, the now ubiquitous quartet of novels about 17-year-ol...

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Published in:	Studies in the novel 2010-03, Vol.42 (1/2), p.121-138
Main Author:	SILVER, ANNA
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	2000-2099 adolescent female readers American literature Authors Children Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints College students Criticism and interpretation Critics Eclipses English Literature Families in literature Family Film adaptations gender Gender/Sexuality Girls Literary criticism Literature Love Meyer, Stephenie Meyer, Stephenie (1973- ) Meyer, Stephenie (b.1973) Motherhood Mothers novel Novelists Novels Pregnancy Romance drama Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894) Sex role in literature Sexuality Twenty-First Century Twilight Saga Twilight series Vampires Womens health Works Young adult fiction Young adult literature Young adults
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Summary:	Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market" Although I regularly teach children's and young adult literature to undergraduate students, it took my son's babysitter to alert me to the phenomenon of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga, the now ubiquitous quartet of novels about 17-year-old Bella Swan and her vampire beau, Edward Cullen. [...] this young woman's passionate investment in these stories brings to mind nineteenth-century readers clamoring at the docks for the latest installments of Dickens's work, and makes her one of a large community of girls and women who have made the Twilight series among the best selling young adult novels of all time.
ISSN:	0039-3827 1934-1512 1934-1512