Twilight and High Schools

Two new scholar books recently published:

Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the 'Twilight' Series
Edited by Anne Morey, Texas A&M University, USA
Ashgate Publishing
Series : Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
Published: April 2012
Extent: 252 pages
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 978-1-4094-3661-4
Much of the criticism on Stephenie Meyer's immensely popular "Twilight" novels has underrated or even disparaged the books while belittling the questionable taste of an audience that many believe is being inculcated with anti-feminist values. Avoiding a repetition of such reductive critiques of the series's purported shortcomings with respect to literary merit and political correctness, this volume adopts a cultural studies framework to explore the range of scholarly concerns awakened by the "Twilight" novels and their filmic adaptations. Contributors examine "Twilight"'s debts to its predecessors in young adult, vampire, and romance literature; the problems of cinematic adaptation; issues in fan and critical reception in the United States and Korea; and the relationship between the series and contemporary conceptualizations of feminism, particularly girl culture. Placing the series within a broad tradition of literary history, reception studies, and filmic adaptation, the collection offers scholars the opportunity to engage with the books' importance for studies of popular culture, gender, and young adult literature.

Includes:

'Famine for food, expectation for content': Jane Eyre as intertext for the 'Twilight' saga by Anne More

And a curious revival by Cambridge University Press:

A Book of English Prose
Arranged for Secondary and High Schools
Part2
Percy Lubbock
Paperback
ISBN:9781107604902
Publication date:February 2012
Originally published in 1913, this book of English prose for school children forms part of a two-volume series: the first volume contains selections for preparatory and elementary schools; the second volume contains selections for secondary and high schools. Both texts cover a broad variety of literary styles, moving chronologically from the late-medieval period through to the nineteenth century, explanatory notes being provided where necessary. The selections were arranged by Percy Lubbock (1879–1965), a renowned essayist, critic and biographer, who became Henry James's editor after his death.

Includes

Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester Charlotte Brontë