Course Description

This course explores literature for young adults from the early 20th century to the present. In 1904, influential researcher and scholar, G. Stanley Hall famously described adolescence as a time of "storm and stress." Essentially, this was the beginning of a modern understanding of teenagers or young adults. The development of a literature specifically for teenagers - considers Hall's definition and the increasing relevance of the young adult literature in the past 120 years. Students will be ex