عنوان

V.C. Andrews :

(Number (ISBN

0313294488

(Number (ISBN

1429476176

(Number (ISBN

1567507972

(Number (ISBN

9780313294488

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9781429476171

(Number (ISBN

9781567507973

Erroneous ISBN

0313294488

Number

b797354

Title Proper

V.C. Andrews :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a critical companion /

First Statement of Responsibility

E.D. Huntley.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Westport, Conn. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Greenwood Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1996.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xi, 153 pages).

Series Title

Critical companions to popular contemporary writers,

ISSN of Series

1082-4979

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (page 120) and index.

Text of Note

Series Foreword / Kathleen Gregory Klein -- 1. The Life of V.C. Andrews -- 2. V.C. Andrews and the Gothic Novel -- 3. Flowers in the Attic (1979) -- 4. The Dollanganger Chronicles -- 5. Garden of Shadows (1987) -- 6. My Sweet Audrina (1982) -- 7. The Casteel Story -- 8. The Other V.C. Andrews: Andrew Niederman.

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Text of Note

The novels and series covered in this work include Flowers in the Attic, the Dollanganger Chronicles (Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday), Garden of Shadows, My Sweet Audrina, and the Casteel Story (Heaven, Dark Angel, Fallen Hearts). In addition, Huntley discusses the novels written under the name V.C. Andrews by Andrew Niederman after V.C. Andrews's death in 1986. This study will open up possibilities for discussion about Andrews's work - its popularity, its strange durability, and its special appeal to young adult readers.

Text of Note

This is the first full-length study of the work of gothic novelist V.C. Andrews. Andrews's ability to create adolescent characters who are caught uncomfortably between childhood and adulthood has won her millions of teenage readers. She focuses on the female adolescent experience and connects with her readers by creating characters who reflect adolescent struggles, confusion, and pain. Huntley shows that the power of Andrews's novels lies in her creation of an enthrallIng nightmare world, like a fairy tale gone berserk, in which the young heroine struggles with adolescent fears and frustrations in suddenly dangerous and bizarre domestic settings. Huntley locates the novels in the tradition of the female gothic, which Andrews refashioned into her own brand of gothicism: a blend of the gothic with horror fiction and the fairy tale.

Text of Note

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

Greenwood eBooks

Title

V.C. Andrews.

Andrews, V. C., (Virginia C.)-- Criticism and interpretation.

Andrews, V. C., (Virginia C.)

Andrews, Virginia C.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

LIT-- 004020

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Huntley, E. D.

Date of Transaction

20201207100641.0

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Electronic name

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