Teenage authors write despite every reason given them not to do so: their youth, immediate risk, others' need to silence their voices. When they do so, they can touch the world, and sometimes change it. Modern readers know this: between thirteen and fifteen, Anne Frank wrote her Diary (published after she died in a concentration camp) about the years her family hid from the Nazis. When she was eleven and twelve, under Taliban rule, Malala Yousafzai wrote a blog promoting girls' education, survived an assassination attempt at fifteen, and won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. For centuries, young writers have actually worked to make their voices heard. The Juvenile Tradition charts their tradition's rise two hundred and fifty years ago to bring back into view the extensive literary history, the shared purpose and conventions, from which juvenile writers still draw their force.
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Oxford University Press
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9780198739203
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The Juvenile Tradition: Young Writers and Prolepsis, 1750-1835